Word: systemizer
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...notice with pleasure that a new law club has been formed in the Law School. This is one of the pleasantest as well as one of the most profitable methods of studying law, and any steps which lead to an extension of the system, and opens the way for new men to take part in it, are highly commendable...
...note with pleasure that the library authorities have adopted the suggestion recently made in the HERALD in regard to a system of request cards. This is but another example of the uniform courtesy and attention with which every suggestion leading to greater perfection in the workings of the library is received by the authorities...
...opening of the graduate courses to under-graduates is but another step toward the perfection of the elective system. On a par in importance with this are the new requirements in regard to the anticipation of a part or the whole of the freshman required course. Both of these changes tend toward the same result - the encouragement of specialties. According to these regulations, a man may anticipate his freshman required work and pursue one subject throughout his college course. The offer of "honors" to special students is also a new feature in the same general line as those just mentioned...
...time, though not exactly wasted, are expended to secure a problematical gain, in the way not so much of success or of happiness, as of grade. These men are seldom thoroughly cultivated, but greatly exaggerate the effect of university culture upon grade, perhaps of all errors about the system the one most generally prevalent. Still others maintain strongly and definitely that the higher education always "pays;" that no matter what a man's occupation may be he will always, if willing, pursue it more successfully as a man with a degree. He may not be willing...
...novel, but for books of reference, text books or historical and philosophical books which cannot be easily finished in a few days, four weeks is none too long a time. That some books, however, are kept out longer than is necessary there can be no doubt. Would not a system of "request cards" obviate the difficulty? When a student is desirous of a book which is out at that time, the librarian could send a notice to the borrower, requesting him to return the book as soon as he had finished reading it. In this way the book...