Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...these occasions, the student b becomes aware of the problem right the University's back door. But uproar quickly dies down, and remain interested long enough worry about a cure. Yet the astounding fact remains that no method of meeting the problem of juvenile delinquency has proved conclusively successfull in Cambridge...
...aims the "development of an understanding of the place of business in our society and an understanding of the responsibility that business has to that society." But the School has chosen, in order to fulfill this aim and its corollary, the development of basic administrative skills, a single method. This approach--the technique that has made the School famous--is the Case Method. It involves the study, one after another, of some one thousand individual administrative problems, such as the firing of an incompetent worker, which the student must meet as if he were the responsible administrator. This method...
...criticisms as questions, because we frankly do not know the answers. We admit we have doubts, but they can be answered by those who know at closer hand the problems of the Business School. Assuming for a moment, however, that there are limitations to the effectiveness of the Case Method, would it not worth considering setting up a required course which would depart both from a consideration of practical problems and the use of the Case Method? This course would center upon the philosophical and historical problems of business and its responsibilities in the modern world. It certainly would feature...
...Choked with method and starved for substance, the play offered only a predicament, not a situation, while the situations that led to the predicament rarely individualized the heroine or galvanized the story. Hers were all-too-familiar aggressions and hurts and guilts; and she too was only a predicament, never really a person...
There is a third method of dealing with examination questions--that is by the use of the overpowering assumption, an assumption so cosmic that it is somethimes accepted. For example, we wrote that it is pretty obvious that the vague generality is the key device in any discussion of examination writing. Why is it obvious? As a matter of fact it isn't obvious at all, but just an arbitrary point from which to start. That is an example of an unwarranted assumption...