Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wrenn, former professor of the Psychology of Education at Minnesota, and teacher at Stanford, has not had to revise any of his theories on the best method of working for A's. In fact, he is glad of the opportunity to prove his ideas first hand, and finds that they work very well...
...Bunk!" cried Dr. Gannon. "I use alcohol and tobacco moderately myself, and so do 95% of the people. It not only prolongs life but makes it more enjoyable. There is no method that we doctors have that is better to combat fever than a good application of alcohol...
Dalrymple's method is the six-hour day and a strict quota system which forces every member to work at the same speed. Thus while every factory pays piece rates, practically all banding department men earn $7.92 a day, all truck tire builders $8.90 a day. The men could earn more by turning out more units. But when one company wanted to boost the daily stint to 169 tire bands per man per day the union squashed it to 143 per day. Reason: a few men might not make the grade and get less money than others...
...good use of his extra hours, though they may be few, by auditing a wide variety of cultural courses. Although it is best for the Freshman to devote himself seriously to the war effort, he can get most out of his stay in Cambridge if he samples by some method more than the bare minimum of courses that he is required to take in each of the three fields of study...
...curricular and social, and the schism stands in spite of all the transformations. In his studies the new Harvard man nearly always finds his greatest difficulty not in newly uncovered ignorance, but in simple fear. There is no blinking the fact that instruction by lecture is a terrifying method at first, and it is equally useless to deny that course work can be harrowing. Luckily, however, the instructors in Freshman courses realize that fact and will have intelligence enough to allow for it. Just remember that if the going gets tough, advisors and instructors are not unapproachable--see them about...