Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weakened tutorial system has meant increased reliance on the focal method of educating large numbers of students. While it is perfectly true that Professor X can as well speak to 1,000 students as to 100, and while educational television may allow him to lecture to half the United States, these are not solutions to the central problem. Building larger lecture halls and more Houses will permit the College to expand, but at the expense of many inestimable values of student-teacher relationships...
Such is not the method, nor, we hope, the aim of any school. Education should stimulate thought, not restrict it. The great value of a university such as Harvard is that it presents many points of view, without attempting to force any single one on its students. By giving its students the opportunity to hear Oppenheimer, the University is only fulfilling its purpose in encouraging mental action and reaction...
What system offers the greatest freedom of expression while best safeguarding the public interest? The issues are so complex that even professional civil-libertarians disagree. The American Civil Liberties Union, which argues that stations should not be allowed to editorialize, thinks that if they do, the ABC method is best because it fosters diversity of opinion. Others complain that ABC abdicates its own responsibility in giving newsmen so much leeway, that its listeners tend to heed only the commentators who echo their own prejudices. The other extreme, even when buttressed by the sense of responsibility of the network, produces more...
...Fulhams hope that some of the peaks and valleys of supply and demand will be flattened by "freezing in the round"-a method devised by the Fish and Wildlife Service to enable trawlers to gut and freeze fish at sea, stay out while the fishing is good, thus build up inventories that will tide them over slack periods (the Fulhams' contribution: a method of part-thawing, preparing and refreezing the fish, which they say preserves flavor). They have offered Boston's fishermen substantial loans to modernize the fleet, and plan to revive the Boston whiting fishery, which suffered...
...truth, the College is stuck with seven Houses which it cannot affort to support. They are too luxurious to meet the demands of undergraduates. But the current method of reducing their cost-crowding leads to inferior education as well as discomfort. The new Houses will meet educational requirements by having private studies but eliminate the Common Rooms, private baths, fireplaces, and individual entries which we can no longer afford. But if this means that only the well to do will live in the old Houses, then the College and the President should reconsider their program. Gracious living is very nice...