Word: method
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Seeking to provide adequate chaperonage for unprotected girls in the possibly dangerous Cambridge environment, the Administration turned to the honor system as a method of enforcing College rules and principles. 'Cliffies were quick to realize that they had much to gain from Administrative trust. "Great responsibilities have been entrusted to us, and, of course, we always try to show that we are capable of meeting even more," one practical 'Cliffie wrote in the 1925 Student Handbook...
Despite this apparent step backward for the honor system, the library has never found it necessary to install a check station, such as the ones in Widener and Lamont, where students must stop and prove that they are not absconding with illicit volumes. Furthermore, the method of checking out books from the Radcliffe library has a casual, trustful air--students sign the book's card and leave it on the circulation desk, pick up a date-due slip, and depart, all without any supervision by librarians. For those used to Harvard's stricter methods, the whole procedure seems slightly haphazard...
Under the method first instigated, the proctor was stripped of all authority and left to act as a mechanical aid in conducting the exam. The system contrasted sharply with that still in effect at Harvard, where proctors prowl the aisles and peer over shoulders to prevent cheating. Another provision allowed the 'Cliffie to leave the examination room without a weary but determined proctor dogging her footsteps. Though girls were on their honor not to give or receive aid during the course of an exam, they were free to take both question sheet and blue book anywhere they pleased...
System of Correlation. In his three-volume Systematic Theology Tillich fits these ideas together into a kind of working model of the universe. He calls the structure, the method of "correlation," by which he means the correlation of human questions arising from the conditions in which man finds himself, with divine answers provided by the symbolism of Christian revelation...
...Colombia, also hit by an epidemic, issued a similar call, got 90,000 children immunized. The schedule: three doses spaced three weeks apart. In Medellin doctors are trying a three-in-one vaccine combination for the newborn, will wait to see how it works before extending the one-dose method to older children...