Word: method
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many observers feel that the decline does not indicate a dropping off of student interest in pass-fail grading, but is instead due to a new, complex method through which students choose their grading status...
Under the new method a student can say he will accept pass-fail grading if a certain percentage--which he specifies--of the first year class also decides to go pass-fail...
...adoption of the new method followed a student protest last week which called for mandatory pass-fail grading for all first-year students. The protest concerned only first-year grading because the first year is generally acknowledged to be the most difficult and pressured of the Law School's three-year program...
Doctors at the Fairview State Hospital in Costa Mesa, Calif., have adapted a musical teaching method to help develop language skills. In one exercise, the youngsters sit in a circle and chant...
Even now, there is some doubt whether the figures that Geneen is producing are all that precise as a guide to ITT's profitability. The company's earnings have benefited enormously from its acquisitions, particularly because ITT, like most conglomerates, uses the "pooling of interest" method of merger accounting. That allows a company that acquires another firm to count as its own all profits the acquired firm earns for the whole year, even if the acquisition is made late in the year. But how well have ITT's component companies done after they were acquired? That question...