Word: systemizer
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...said that owing to cases where several students in the English universities have broken down under the mental strain produced by their studies, searching investigations are being made into the entire system of instruction and requirements for degrees. If the stolid and hearty English frame cannot bear up under such an intense strain, how can we expect our American youth, with its constitutionally nervous temperament, to endure a long continued and severe course of study? Our burdens are continually growing heavier, owing to the ambitious rivalry between our colleges; will it not soon be found out that everything cannot...
They have invented a system of hiving bees by electricity. This knocks the neighbors out of the fun they used to have under the old system, of seeing the man who attempted to do the hiving make a grand burst of speed toward the mill pond, clawing wildly at his legs, leaping at times four feet into the air, and yelling like a Comanche Indian. Modern invention will yet knock all the fun out of life...
Next March, Turkey's old and clumsy system of weights and measures gives way to the metric system. The unit of the new system is called the archius, and is equal to the French metre...
...House banking committee have adopted that resolution in favor of continuing the national banking system...
...current Nation contains a well-considered editorial, upon "Yale and Harvard," suggested by the recent reports of Presidents Porter and Eliot, which we commend to the attention of all college men. The writer compares the Yale system to the great schools of England, Eton and Rugby, and finds the Harvard theory to be an approximation to the type of the European university. Commenting upon the disadvantages of the method of strict regulations and supervision imposed upon students at Yale, he says: "No efficient seat of learning can, with any endowment which any American college now possesses or hopes to possess...