Word: method
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...best method of preventing or curing influenza combines isolation, rest, sleep, good food, proper ventilation...
...method of demonstration and of proof adopted by Queen-Empress Victoria's onetime Page of Honor is to range widely and exhaustively over the material of post-War documents and disclosures, culling testimony from the very statesmen under whom the War lies were forged and used as deadly weapons. Citing chapter and verse, page and line, Laborite Ponsonby produces the following five "proofs" of his above five assertions...
...Angeles (school and park site planning, highways ahead of needs); Milwaukee (city employment offices); Chicago (parked waterfront); Auburn, N. Y. (wiping out diphtheria by general toxin-antitoxin immunization); Detroit (best type school buildings); Gary. Ind. (work-study-play method of education); Dallas (adult education); Cleveland (adult education; education against venereal disease; teaching parents how to raise children); Washington (education against venereal disease); Boston (district health centres); St. Louis (plenty of hospital beds); San Francisco (prevention, treatment & instruction of hard of hearing); Winnetka, Ill. (progressive education...
...same time that they showed their devotion to the University by an act of supreme sacrifice." How them, should selections be made? There is the obvious objection that all the evils of the club system would be only magnified by such a plan if the clubs pursued their present method of election. Wilson's solution, implicit though never spoken, was to make intellectual and not social raport the basis of selection...
...avoid the consequences of overgrowth and standardization. The situation at Princeton is less pressing than at Harvard; Princeton has neither Harvard's severe growing pains not its noticeable lack of essential unity. And yet Princeton cannot be excepted from the observation that our leading universities must find some method of justifying their leadership if this leadership is to remain more than purely nominal; somehow they must provide a noticeably superior education. Mr. Barkness and Harvard's plan certainly may be regarded as working toward this. --Princetonian...