Jefferson guided the College to adopt the nation's first elective system of study and to introduce the first student-adjudicated Honor System.
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In the partially elective system of tanistry, the heir or " tanist " was elected from the qualified males of the royal family.
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Scholars say the elective systems for judicial selection have their roots in the populist movement that sought to expand the power of the electorate.
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Our great republic has been the only example in the world of a regular and orderly transfer of governmental succession by the elective system.
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From 1880 to 1910, Baccalaureate granting American institutions vastly embraced a free-elective system, where students were endowed with a greater freedom to explore intellectual curiosities.
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The Texas elective system is such a crap shoot that a catchy " ballot name " _ as they call it _ is considered a serious factor.
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Progressive bar groups have long lamented the nominating process for New York's elective system as a boss-ridden sham that mocks the rights of citizens of all races.
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Charles W . Eliot, a chemist, created the modern elective system and preached a democratic gospel that included his famous " five-foot shelf " of mass-marketed classic books.
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Eliot turned a leading college into a great university by, among other things, institutionalizing the elective system, thus opening American universities to the explosion of knowledge and markets.
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According to Wadsworth, despite the popularity and effectiveness of an elective system in other fields of study, a fixed system was very common for engineering and technical education.
