Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clearing the Decks. Before the week was out, as a more energetic approach began to take hold, there were other diplomatic moves. In the U.N., the U.S. took a humiliating step to reverse an inept, unworkable policy in Palestine (see above). In Turin, Foreign Minister Georges Bi-dault, as spokesman for the West, proposed the return of Trieste to Italy. That was a sound effort to prevent a Communist victory in the Italian elections next month, to draw a non-Communist Italy into the orbit of Western Union. Still further bids to the Italian voters were in the works...
Speaking in New Lecture Hall, Professor Kluckhohn urged the use of the fact-finding approach as applied in anthropology in determining "universal" values, but pointed out that values of taste were outside the scope of this method...
Termed by its moderator, Payson S. Wild, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, "one of the most important meetings of the year," the forum is expected to revolve around the issue of goals and values versus the fact-gathering approach. Elliott will defend the former, Kluckhohn the latter...
...Taxonomic Approach...
Letters of recommendation in general and character references in particular are usually meaningless, and when an undergraduate has to ask an overworked professor, to whom he is scarcely known by name, for a letter of recommendation, the matter reaches a point of absurdity. Of course, the undergraduate can approach the problem more conscientiously and go to some section man he had two years before, or to his adviser or tutor. In most cases, however, if the instructor is still at Harvard, he has to refer to the student's official transcript, which the graduate school will have in any case...