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Word: method (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Citing the high proportion of students entering their first choice House, Watson praised the present system of House assignments. "Although it's a great deal of work, it is far preferable to the IBM method used at Yale," he remarked...

Author: By Claude E. Welch jr., | Title: 66% of Freshmen Gain House of First Choice | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

...this has not been done in the spirit of any drastic change. One dean, perhaps the move's strongest supporter, sees the modification merely as a slight improvement in teaching method. A member of the Administration, she would admit few defects in Wellesley to outsiders...

Author: By Charles I. Kingson, | Title: Wellesley College: The Tunicata | 5/8/1959 | See Source »

...idea behind this method of teaching seems almost anti-academic--that the fact of discussion is more important than the material itself. Wellesley, if articulating its justification for such a value judgment, would do it as did one professor--in terms of the terminal education...

Author: By Charles I. Kingson, | Title: Wellesley College: The Tunicata | 5/8/1959 | See Source »

...idle rich." The danger of creating such class distinctions in Radcliffe's liberal society seems relatively remote. Since a paid student staff would offer valuable job opportunities, operate more efficiently, and free other students from a time-consuming and pointless task, the Radcliffe Administration should seriously consider this method of replacing the waiting-on program...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Waiting Game | 5/7/1959 | See Source »

Divorce Revealed. Rod Steiger, 34, method actor, TV's original Marty, the cinema's current Al Capone and the malevolent bandit in Broadway's Rashomon; by Sally Gracie, 30, actress; after six years of marriage (mostly in separation), no children; in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, in January...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, may 4, 1959 | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

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