Word: systems
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Either there should be a revision in the system of travelling time to take care of cases such as that of the foregoing illustration, or the college should grant the extra day or two as an extended vacation period to men who have only one or two classes before the week-end. It will be hardly reasonable to expect men to return next year for Saturday classes when January 2 falls on a Friday. The benefit of the single class cannot offset the benefit of two extra day's holiday...
...mental rather than the historical developments of the last three centuries. The modification of the old concepts of an order in nature, matter, space, time, continuity, interaction, induction, and atomism by the newer ones of the molecular theory, the quantum theory and relativity to form a new, harmonious system, is, in the last analysis, the main theme of this cosmology...
...difficulties of getting a full and fair vote for the election of class officers, which has been the center of recent discussion over the senior elections, have given rise to a new attempt at their solution. At Amherst there has been proposed a system which, it is thought, will provide for a fair vote and will allow a full gauging of undergraduate preference both in nomination and final election...
...system is a complex one. The actual nominating is done by members of a student council committee from the floor in mass meeting of the class. A preliminary vote is taken upon the nominees; the three winners are then submitted to an elimination count which decides the election. The advantage of the method is to reach all sections of the class. The situation in which many a voter finds all the nominees are strangers to him cannot arise...
...clear that the system is not applicable to Harvard. The mere mention of a class mass meeting is enough to damn it. Nevertheless there is a need for a method by which the name of the nominee will have some significance in the mind of the voter. A brief mention of the position and activities of the candidate, printed on the ballot, would serve in some measure to acquaint the voter with the aspirant for office...