Word: approach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fine Arts Department seems to have irrevocably decided that it does not want men with Professor Robin Feild's approach to the teaching of art. In spite of the impression which has been given that it would rather cut its own arm off than lose him if it were not for personal and administrative considerations, the issue clearly goes beyond these and raises the question of the department's general attitude toward the teaching of this subject. To this question no complete and dogmatic answer can be given which would invalidate its entire function. The department is highly esteemed...
...similar tax was proposed by Dr. Francis E. ("The Plan") Townsend to pay his nationwide pensions. Closest approach to it in actual practice is Hawaii's "gross income...
Inventor Houdry has an entirely new approach. In his arduous attempts to make gasoline from lignite, he happened on a catalyst (an agent that accelerates chemical action without becoming part of the product it activates) which converted crude to gasoline without the great pressure or heat required in thermal cracking. Unable to get backing in France, he found...
...appointment of a new committee to study methods of teaching in the secondary schools is a practical application of President Conant's announced desire for an attack on these school problems. At the present time there are two ways in which Harvard can approach the secondary school, one through the Dean's office and one through the School of Education. The present committee is a combination of the two, and through these media it can indirectly affect pre-college training...
This is Harvard's approach to the problem, following the ideas of the President's recent annual report. By its admission requirements the college helps the schools form their curricula; by its School of Education the University can send out men well trained and aware of the problems ahead. The University cannot dictate to the schools; it can only influence them indirectly, So the findings of the new committee will be eagerly awaited, and may well affect both what Harvard requires of its candidates for admission and what the University will teach prospective school teachers, superintendents and headmasters...