Word: complexity
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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That this is so is not the fault of the executive committee, but of the system. Our whole system of boating is unnecessarily complex and expensive. Fellows who want to row but cannot get on the University crew or afford to buy a boat join one of the four clubs which have heretofore hired their boats of Mr. Blakey; but after paying the assessment most of them feel too poor, or perhaps disinelined, to do much for the crew. their club were originally intended to be included in the H. U. B. C., but they have forgotten this and feel...
...more than this, there is a pleasure rarely to be enjoyed in comparing the old poet with the new, in setting side by side the simple, earnest naturalness of the one, and the complex thought, richer and fuller, of the other. Two passages are cited by Mr. Furnival, which well illustrate the contrast: first, the reply of Sir Bedivere...
This reform would meet the general wants of the students more perfectly, would thereby increase the membership and success of the clubs, and would save continual trouble and much complex organization. By adding new members it would give yet more material for the crews, and as each club would still elect its own captain, the races would lose none of their interest. It would certainly seem for the interest both of the clubs and of the individual members that some such reform as this be effected...
...only influence at work here, or that it is so pre-eminently the chief influence that the others may be safely disregarded. Where so many causes are at work it is eminently illogical and misleading to select out any one as the sole cause of a most complex result. And this brings us to the second bit of nonsense, whose commonness the majority of our college men, who do not see the exchanges, remain happily ignorant of; we mean the wholly imaginary light in which Harvard is represented as regarding her emancipation from the old system of required studies into...
...regulations are so very complex that it is hard to give a general idea of them, but one sees at once that the Unions are much more extensive and business-like than anything we have at Harvard. Each Society owns the building it occupies; at least, I infer that Oxford does. The President of the Cambridge Union writes that their "present building is large and extensive, and embraces a library, debating-hall, closets and offices on the ground floor; a magazine room and writing room on the second floor; and a smoking and coffee room and reference room...