Word: approach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps the Department of Chemistry does not wish to encourage dilettantes, among its test-tubes. It is unfortunate, however, that those desiring an approach to the laboratory method while concentrating in the humanities or social sciences have been forced into other fields simply because the lords of Mallinckrodt have confused science with mechanization...
...India got to the part of his speech in which he announced that, after seven years of toil, the India Report was ready (see col. 2). His Majesty said with visible emotion: "I pray that both your Houses, upon whom now rests the responsibility for deciding these issues, may approach the task before them with the single aim of furthering the well-being of my Empire...
...necessarily approve all the present courses now required. Some are probably unnecessary and should be replaced with others. A great many are taught from what is possibly the wrong approach. This does not affect, however, the fundamental thesis--that for the first two years of college to force all students in general to take a few specified courses, or courses in certain specified fields, is a basically sound policy. We hope that Yale will not go far in following the recent action of Vassar in sweeping away course requirements. Yale Daily News...
Zweig is neither Catholic nor Protestant so his approach is reasonably objective and his work is free from the heavy touch of axe-grinding. His perceptive style is devoid of superfluities and the work is one of stimulating scholarships...
Criticisms to this suggestion are many, granted. But it seems that such a solution is a satisfactory one to one of the most difficult problems of Distribution. Modern thinking is greatly assisted by a scientific approach, and it becomes more apparent daily that such an understanding is not included in the Harvard requirements. Elementary sciences may give one an inkling of scientific method as practiced in the laboratory, but it is doubtful if they do more. A history of scientific thought conveys the true meaning of scientific method. Likewise a history of philosophic thought will give a clearer meaning...