Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the demise of OPA in June, Dolan good naturedly acknowledged defeat. But he is convinced a method of holding the seersucker price line is to make it as popular in sultry summer Washington as it is on the banks of the Charles, grass stains...
...seven weeks' rule is also completely unsatisfactory from the standpoint of many members of the Faculty. In advanced courses, hour exams are often totally unsuited to the nature of the plan of study, with the result that they form an artificial and thoroughly unfair method of measuring student ability. Tutors find that their tutees have to abandon tutorial work for a period of a week or more in order to prepare for hour exams. And finally, many members of the Faculty, working within the constrictions of the war-shortened semester, find that the necessity for giving hour exams further reduces...
...along under their own power and not provide the academic crutch that had characterized the tutoring establishments. This philosophy was the basis to the recent change from Bureau of Supervisors to Bureau of Study Counsel. Actual help in specific courses was to be reserved for men whose faulty method of work or poor back ground had retarded them or for students who had missed classes because of illness...
...welter of systems that proclaim the true road to scholastic success, Perry has developed his own method of teaching study skills that result in durable learning and defining just what they are. In his "counsel" sessions Perry emphasizes to students that the principal objective is to think and not to rely on books or notes to do their thinking for them...
With the boycott now invoked, the Committee is left with the third recommendation made on Wednesday evening-- that of setting up a picket line outside the Club--as their last method of putting pressure on the Club 100. Present plans call for the decision as to whether or not the picket line shall be established to come sometime Sunday evening