Word: systems
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This social success has been achieved alongside a fraternity system that claims nine thriving units and 19 percent of Yale's undergraduates. Masters and students disagree on how much fraternities and Colleges compete for the loyalties of undergraduates. Fraternity men think there is a tension between the two. College masters confess there is some split loyalty, but consider it negligible and on the decline. They note that especially among the socially-conscious Yalies there is bound to be a "smart set" that will want some measure of exclusiveness...
...little more than a hope. Yale went half a million dollars into the red last year and this year may be worse. The College's intellectual salvation can never be more than partial in the forseeable future. The masters know this and intend to energize the current "fellows" system, now generally restricted to an occasional lunch and discussion with crack students...
Yale's inability to equal the English college tutorial system, even in the limited way that Harvard has aped it with entry tutors, may be just the reason that the Colleges have functioned so well socially. Since the masters can't do much to make their College's training grounds for learning, they make them training grounds for community living. This resulted in a liberal attitude towards rules and residents' whims that would astound the Harvard undergraduate, who haggles nervously with a Yard cop when caught violating a room permission and thinks he has won a major triumph...
...experiments in community living and responsibility," he says. "I think this is very important. We're preparing for life in a democracy as well as for the life of the mind." Greene lets a College student council initiate and follow through most of Silliman's activities. Through that system, he thinks, Silliman men (Salamanders) will develop loyalties toward each other rather than toward the master or the tradition of the College, as in most of the other nine colleges. "What I'm trying to get," Greene explained, "is an antidote to the disinterest typical of suburban living. I think...
...Memory System...