Word: method
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...leading method was to import topflight European refugee mathematicians. Of 131 now here, the Foundation brought in 28. The refugees include 16 from Germany's famous Göttingen Mathematical Institute-some ousted Jews, others disgusted "Aryans." Many are "pure" scientists now in the applied field, training students of ballistics, aerodynamics. Three of the Mathematician refugees (including Department Head Richard Courant) are at N.Y.U., two are at Brown, others at Harvard, Chicago, Wisconsin, M.I.T., the New School for Social Research and the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton...
Tested in Battle. To some it seems unfair that single men who were drafted last year have opportunities beyond this year's crop of father-soldiers, but the exigencies of war rarely make for absolute fairness. The noblest method of becoming an officer is still open to all soldiers who face the enemy: commission in battle. Many officers were "made" on Guadalcanal and in New Guinea.* Like the machines of war (see p. 69), not all men of war can stand the test of battle. For those who meet the test of leadership in battle, there are still ample...
...Method. Typical of the new detention barracks is the one at Camp Phillips, Salina, Kans., in the Seventh Service Command. The average casualty of his own misconduct is 25, has had only seven years education. Two out of three have been imprisoned for desertion (which in wartime can carry a death sentence) or persistently going A.W.O.L. (Other offenses: sleeping on post, repeated misdemeanors, unbecoming military conduct, escape, disobedience to officers.) Three out of four prisoners are single. Half come from farms, half from cities. All have been sentenced to hard labor and dishonorable discharge...
...from bringing the two student bodies together, in all but introductory courses, the new curricular policy, as far as is now known, will affect only the method of selecting subjects and teachers for Radcliffe classes...
Tech's coach could not find much method in the Tufts team's play, but when the two squads met last week, he admitted that the Jumbos scored the goals. Although Tech lost only 8 to 1 to the Brown and Blue, the Engineers' coach asserted that the score could have been higher...