Word: systemizer
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...Every one in the eleven has his position and his play. More than this, the quarter back play which the Britishers so much despise is the key to the whole game. That whole game is one system and the whole team a machine which depends upon the slightest move of that one man. Would any American player give up the beautiful play which results from this feature - the throws to the halves - the short passes to rushers - the quick kicks by the quarter himself, and take in its place the pell-mell pushing, hacking and butting of the English scrummage...
...your other correspondent's objection that the tickets would be sold to outsiders, could not a system of signatures, and the "rebates" of the late railroad war, be adopted? Some plan similar to this might be found practicable...
That a journal of the importance and influence of the Nation should express its condemnation of the present elective system of studies is a matter of concern to all the friends of Harvard. The editor of the Nation believes that an unrestrained and perfectly free elective system is unwise, just as much as an iron-bound and unyeilding system of prescribed studies is unwise. An elective system by complete courses or groups, - where each one at the beginning chooses a certain group of studies, all bearing towards one general end, is best. The Harvard system is, therefore...
...power of the country and four-fifths of the intellectual ability" were on the Conservative side, and the answer by a writer in the Times giving a long list of eminent liberals. The Spectator says, "Neither assertion nor rejoinder matters a straw. The transfer of power, under our modern system, is not left to professors, but to those whom they scarcely influence at all." - [N. Y. Post...
...also true that objectionable as some of the accompaniments of the boat clubs and base-ball clubs may be, their existence and their triumphs and eclat serve a valuable purpose in keeping alive the interest in physical condition without which the 'well-rounded man' will, under any system of education, be an impossibility. They have done much to create and foster the admiration for health and vigor without which college men, in our time, cannot exert much influence in the world, no matter how great their culture may be. The days are gone by when mere learning made an idol...