Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deciding on the policy of distributing Freshmen in the Houses; and finally, the Council ought definitely to take a stand on what it considers to be the most satisfactory method of balancing the H.A.A. budget for the coming year. By meeting these problems and many others the Council might approach a fulfillment of the ends for which it was created, but in order to do so, it must at once reorganize its mode of procedure, expand, and open its actions fully to the student view...
...Judith Anderson) if he caught her in another man's arms, that's what he'd do. Just before the close of Act I, in another man's arms is exactly where Count Paolo catches the Countess. Only a playwright with the charmingly oblique Latin approach to such matters would have caused the Count to do what he next does. Afraid to kill his wife, afraid of public ridicule if he does not kill her. he packs her off to England, confesses to. her murder, stands trial, is acquitted. His triumphant homecoming is marred...
...interests and character were remote from the contemporary scene, centering on the poet George Herbert, for whom he was named, on classical literature; and, alone perhaps among his contemporaries, in the more traditional aspects of philosophy. He brought to the work of teaching a faith in the critical approach which was both classical and Puritan in origin, and yet was vital enough to make him eminent in a generation of great teachers...
...such a logical mind as wrote "Principia Mathematics," a thorough knowledge of mathematical physics, and an unshakable conviction that his classes know more than he does. Long after the subject matter of the lectures is forgotten, the way he gave them will be remembered, in particular his method of approach to the problems...
...however, three publishers of college text books have instituted court proceedings against a college tutor who, they claim, has violated the copyrights on their properties by reprinting them in condensed form. This may be one approach to the cramming school problem, and it is easy to see where official sympathies will lie in the issue. But, more than anything else, the necessity for cramming for exams has been obviated by the spread of the tutoring systems and reading periods within colleges themselves. No such great store is now set on tests in single subjects, and a comprehensive knowledge...