Word: method
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...practice of taking certain courses for credit and claimed that in most cases the student, five years after college, failed to remember anything significant about them. In the matter of preparatory education he said there was no reason for teaching elementary language courses in colleges and that the contemporary method of teaching English composition was open to serious criticism...
Professor Lake claimed that the best method, speaking from his own experience, was the requirement of classical education that only the best English be used in the translation of the classical languages. He characterized this statement by pointing out how ridiculous it was for Harvard students to write "silly little essays on the sunset over the Charles River...
...true, there have been exceptions to this rule. On the whole, however, the mode of presentation tends to be strenuously academic, at times almost ceremonial. One has the feeling as though some of the undergraduate authors were overpowered by their own sense of scientific responsibility: their method is cautiously conservative, their style weighted by terminology. Perhaps there is stage fright behind such mimicry. Whatever the cause, its effects are not conducive to first-rate journalism. Here is a wide realm for editorial guidance...
Another important achievement of the aerial-photographic laboratories which, according to Bagley, have "probably the finest collection of instruments and cameras for aerial photography work in this country and even in the world," is the utilization of an entirely new calculation method...
What annoyed Matt Mann most was the Kiphuth method of training swimmers in a gymnasium, the Kiphuth stunt of sitting on the bottom of the Yale pool in a diving helmet to observe his pupils from underneath...