Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians had in the past preferred a piecemeal approach. U.S. policy could be more clearly crystallized and more effectively stated in a unified approach...
...Easy." Written in 1942 and subsequently revised, China's Destiny displays a Confucian approach to the organization of society interestingly at odds with the democratic constitution adopted in January (at Chiang's urging) by China's National Assembly. Throughout both Destiny and Economic Theory, Chiang 1) attributes China's revolution (and the need for it) almost entirely to the Westernizing "corruption" of the unequal treaties; 2) rejects democracy in the Western sense in favor of the class "equilibrium" of Confucius; and 3) advocates a "Chinese" system of economics which rules out free enterprise capital...
Your editorial entitled "Low Grade System" seemed to me an entirely wrong approach of the problem. It represented an attempt to patch up a system which badly requires complete overhauling. As an external prod to effort, grades offer a cheap substitute (and an ineffective one at that) for the only incentive worth having: the student's interest and eagerness to learn. The student whose prime motive for studying is the attainment of good grades is not worth the College's time, anyhow...
...after the turn of the century, and highly organized cram courses flourished. By 1936 Wolff's, Parker-Cramer, and the establishment of E. Gordon Parker '96 had achieved leadership in their field and were busily stuffing College mailboxes with their literature. "Tute school" advertising stressed respectability and the scientific approach. A high-water mark of a sort was reached by Wolff's in a display ad that pictured a cap and gowned senior under the headline, "Diploma by Harvard--Tutoring by Wolff...
Wirtz suggested that economic and social aspects of the employer-employee problem be considered "rather than just precedents set by law." This approach, he said, would materially aid in the solution of the country's labor problems...