Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This stumbling block of precious independence is in fact a false and unnecessary obstacle. Change in the method of learning does not imply that students must be told what to learn. Effective or ineffective educational methods can be used with Eliot or with Hutchins. In fact, more interference from a central college authority is not equal to better education...
...advocates sterilization as a method of protecting society from an increasing number of feebleminded or insane persons...
...Comical. Some Congressmen felt uneasy over having to repudiate Forrestal. But they blamed the National Defense office for the situation more than they blamed themselves. Said Massachusetts' Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.: "No satisfactory method at present exists to resolve the differences between the armed services and to produce an intelligent and integrated plan . . . The Secretary of Defense, although an extremely competent official, is so lacking in professional help that he cannot possibly resolve the differences. What happens? The controversy is passed on to Congress and we here are thus required to resolve a technical dispute between professionals...
...telephones, both "main lines" and extensions from main lines, within the University, will connect with each other through a simple dialing of the extension number, in place of the previous oral method...
...mouth as if they were bullets, though often enough when they land they seem more like spitballs. Occasionally, to show he knows his way around a dictionary (or beyond it), he tosses in a word like "propliopithecustian." But most of the time he sticks to the literary method which assumes that the height of human expression can be reached in a monosyllabic grunt...