Word: approach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present science requirement does not seem equipped to give students the proper attitude toward the scientific approach to knowledge. For the non-scientific mind which pretends to call itself an educated one, the proper understanding of the scientific view seems essential. Too many people in the University have little idea of such an attitude, yet they are content in their feeling that since they have taken an elementary course in science they are aware of the scientific method. These elementary courses cannot present to the undergraduate any understanding of such a method, nor should they. It does seem, however, that...
Karl Hofer, winner of the second prize of the recent Carnegie International exhibition, and August Macke, one of the many talented young artists killed in the war, are far more objective in their approach. They have something of the cold Latin logic in their art and are more interested in the formal than in the emotional possibilities of paint and canvas. Lionel Feininger, with his feeling for design and his ability to catch mood, shows himself one of the most gifted in the array...
...skids" as far as the spectator is concerned, and the only thing that can stop it from sliding into a season of shame is a victory over Eli Yale. Thus it is that Eddie Casey is already concentrating all his efforts and those of his staff on the approach of the annual classic, and threatening New Hampshire has been brushed aside as unworthy of much consideration when such a crisis in Blue will roll into town only a week behind...
...plans to end poverty, sedition, war, or profits. From Ogden Mills to Earl Bowder the contemporary scene is peppered with eloquent men on soap boxes. It might seem that a certain intellectual perspective and depth of thought rather than an opinionated familiarity with the facts would supply the better approach to the problems of the century...
Many thinkers have not been able to explain knowledge of the world with Mr. Chase's facility. Educators, moreover, persist in teaching what he would call the impractical arts but the students versed in this learning and training by its discipline are not likely to approach current problems with the confidently preconceived prejudices of many of our realists. If intellectual understanding and unbiased thinking are the products of such an education it is the kind of training modern youth desires...