Word: approach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more significant is the concentrators' almost unanimous opinion that the method and scope of teaching in the department is seriously in need of revision. Too much emphasis is laid, they feel, on political theory: they approach, it is felt, is too analytical, too scholastic, in the strictest sense of the term. The department treats too exclusively of the art of government, paying too little attention to its practise. In courses as in tutorial work--throughout the whole work a student does in preparation for his final examinations--the outside world is far too often regarded as a scientist regards...
...government, but as at the back of the entire course of study. What a man says is not so significant as the spirit in which he says it: the department should shift its method of attack from theoretical to practical, from analytical to synthetical; the spirit behind its approach should always be to contribute towards a better understanding of the modern world, and the most feasible means--judged from past precedents--of curing some of society's ills...
...engrossed have successive classes become in the absorbing lectures of William Langer that they have gradually come to submit themselves like drugged sheep to a hapless system of oral examinations which more nearly approach Prussian police methods than conferences in a civilized and modern university. Students are rushed through these meetings, summarily quizzed upon a few abstruse features of a highly complicated period, and as quickly dismissed to make room for the next man. Like machine parts in a factory, they are hastily examined for imperfections, and then cast back into the wash...
Particularly is Harvard concerned in this matter. When its new School of Public Administration comes into being, a prerequisite for entering candidates should be intensive training in sociology, as well as other social sciences. Without such instruction, students would miss sociology's unique and infinitely valuable approach to government as an institution...
...already played a respectable duffer's game. Accordingly Instructor Mitchell was brought to the course every morning in Mr. Rockefeller's own closed carriage. The strange cries which occasionally sounded over the course came from guards posted to warn Mr. Rockefeller of his wife's approach. That this elaborate deception worked was illustrated a few weeks later when Golfer Rockefeller strolled up to the tee where his wife was preparing to swing, casually remarking: "I think I'll play with you this morning. It looks as if it might be a nice game." Mrs. Rockefeller, amazed...