Word: systemizer
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...committee on street railways in the Massachusetts Legislature has reported favorably on the Meigs elevated railway system...
...Dartmouth bitter complaint is made of the system of excuses for cuts. "If a student is too ill to attend recitation," wails the Dartmouth, "he must crawl up (or get a friend to carry him on a shutter) and inform the professor of the fact, and obtain permission to crawl back...
...government was pressed for money, and a general system of internal taxation was determined upon and put into action by the bill of this year. Mr. Morrill, in order to compensate for this tax upon the people, proposed a bill, which was passed, raising the tariff rate. Two years later the great "Tariff Act of 1864" was passed, which is said to be the largest financial transaction in the world's history. Internal taxes were considerably raised, and tariff duties were made much larger than ever before...
...advocates of the Annex make what, compared with the claims of the majority of people who talk on co-education, seem to be slight demands. Harvard is not asked to furnish a system of co-education, and she is not asked to take up a new and untried experiment. The Annex merely asks a recognition and permanent opportunity for the continuation of a work which has been carried through with success for four years under the shadow of our university. No revolutionary policy is asked of us: no changes in the methods of instruction. To quote from the report...
...endure an examination, the "little-go" and the "great-go," as they are called. At Oxford there is as well a final examination, just before the students take their degrees (or do not take them). They are conducted by public examiners and are distinct from the colleges. The system of having only two examinations during the course is superior, in some respects, to the custom in vogue here of holding them every few weeks, but it has many obvious disadvantages...