Word: method
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Vaudeville and auctioneering reclaimed him until 1920 when he campaigned for the mayoralty with his wife ("Me and Sarah"), successfully, against enemies that called him "a vulgar vaudeville actor." His method this time was to invite the public to free vaudeville programs, then orate. Leaving office, he sought nomination for governor, losing to Klan-backed Ed. Jackson. His latest public appearance was last week as a witness in the trial for corruption of his mayoral successor, John L. Duvall (see CORRUPTION...
When one has once accepted this extremely politic stand the remainder of his ruminations follow in a much more logical and scientific manner. The root of this presumed evil lies, obviously, in too inclusive entrance methods; therefore Mr. Angell advances various aids to the enforcement of a selective process. Most of those listed by him have been tried with a greater or less degree of success. One thing is certain--Mr. Angell endorses such a pruning of registration lists but while doing so he also realizes that there can be no wholesale method. Each institution must adjust its own mechanics...
...might say that the efficiency of this method of registration which is at once so simple for the student and, it is presumed, satisfactory for the University office, is attested by the comparative paucity of errors. It is not at all unusual in other institutions, whose systems are more onerous, for a person to wait as long to rectify a mistake as to make one. Here a student may be as much subject to changes of mind but he can console himself with the thought that he has a reasonable period of grace in which to discover whether...
...child's back, giving its name, date & hour of birth, sex and a lot number. As a further precaution the obstetrical (O.B.) nurse puts a numbered band on the child's wrist and on the mother's wrist another band numbered in duplicate. The method is like that which ornithologists use in bird marking...
...Years. Commander Richard E. Byrd flew from Buffalo to Toronto, with Maurice Bokanowski, French Minister of Commerce. In Toronto M. Bokanowski said: "In less than ten years I foresee every man flying as the most logical method of transportation...