Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cabot has announced that the Ingersoll lecture this year will differ greatly from its predecessors, in that the attempt will be made by Mr. Cabot to approach the question from the standpoint of interest to young...
...situation in colleges with regard to prohibition. In fact it developed early in the opening session that violation of the eighteenth amendment was to be the chief subject of the various delegates. Among the suggestions to combat drinking in colleges formally ratified by the conference were propositions to approach the alumni in an effort to curtail drinking at class reunions and football games; to line up the fraternities and other undergraduate organizations on the side of strict enforcement: and a recommendation that the efforts of local agents be made to show greater results...
...every reason to believe that the so-called scientific attack, if launched at man himself, his social reactions, his passions and prejudices would produce somewhat comparable results in these infinitely more important fields. Only children imagine that this means a mathematical expression of the "human equation". But the scientific approach--careful inductive reasoning only upon large quantities of carefully weighed and weighted facts, with constant open-mindedness and willingness to build slowly and painstakingly even while expecting new facts which demand new and flexible hypotheses--is not inapplicable to human problems...
...permanent arrangements; one is conducting negotiations with a university; five have been taken over by independent boards of trustees and are being made nonproprietary; one has been closed; only one still remains a commercial school. Standards of admission have been raised and the outlook indicates that dentistry will soon approach a position of scholastic equality with medicine...
Indian railroad, on its crusade for the top of the world. It will circle the mountain and approach from the northeast, by the route found most practicable on the previous attempts. Before June 1 success or failure will have been...