Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...third day of voting in both the Sophomore and Junior classes comes without the necessary sixty per cent vote being cast, in spite of numerous exhortations and appeals to class spirit, there is gradually coming over the College a realization that there is something wrong in our present system. This has found expression in two ways,-a condemnation of non-voters by their more enthusiastic (or perhaps only more conscientious) class-mates, and a naive reply of "Why should we vote when do don't know for whom we are voting...
...that Great Britain a opposed to it. I grant that nationalization is probably the moving idea behind this strike, but insist that intelligent Britain does not stand wholly opposed to it in any form. The Sankey Report says, paragraph nine: "Even upon the evidence already given the present system of ownership and working in the coal industry stands condemned, and some other system must be substituted for it, either nationalization of a method of unification by national purchase and, or, by joint control...
...Harvard coaching system is as perfect as any system could be. The men that played against us understood all the fine points of the game and worked together like a machine, each man performing his alloted task with hardly a mistake...
...simultaneous personally conducted tours in small corners of various fields. Small groups are more and more difficult to arrange in our huge, democratic colleges, and the number of college instructors in this country who have been in English universities or are able to imagine any substitute for the lecture system is very small indeed...
There is no doubt that in the junior and senior years at most of our big universities a certain proportion of the men become restive under the lecture system. This feeling is certain to grow and unless the colleges respond to it in some way their hold on the more intelligent men in America and on the intellectual life of the country is sure to weaken. Their already feeble resistance to technical education will become a rout. The trouble with the lecture system is that it keeps a chap at 21 or 22 working on his old prep school subjects...