Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foreign languages by actual imitation of the sounds that they heard coming over the tape. When the war ended, Cornell was the first college to pick up this idea, using it on an experimental basis. By 1950 it had proved itself so successful that it was made the permanent method. As a result, Cornell has the most modern, if not the most successful language program in the country. The language is completely separated from the culture and no student is encouraged to read the literature of his particular language, as literature, until he has gained a thorough speaking knowledge...
Frohock points out that the department initiated last year modern methods in the elementary French courses: French R and French A. Geary is using the "direct method" of language teaching, i.e. from the moment the student steps into the classroom, he hears nothing but French. This system is designed to surround the student with an environment, so dominated by the language, that he absorbs it by osmosis, in the same fashion that he learned his own language. "It is still too early to tell how it is working out," Geary comments, "but it has worked at Cornell and there...
CHEAP NUCLEAR POWER is goal of 54 utilities that propose to build new type, 40,000 kw. reactor outside Philadelphia. It would be cooled by helium; method may well prove more economical than usual water cooling...
...same method of "vanishing" can be used to enable a student to talk in technical or scientific terms about a certain subject. Professor Skinner uses as an example the vocabulary transformation from lay to technical on the emission of light from an incandescent source...
Known primarily as classroom teacher, Mendenhall is not a prolific publisher. One of his big contributions to Yale's history department: development (along with his colleagues) of the "problem method," which stresses use of original sources instead of historical texts. Sample Mendenhall problem, fed to one class of freshmen: was the famous mot de Cam-bronne that French General Pierre Cam-bronne uttered near the end of the Battle of Waterloo really "The old guard dies, but never surrenders"-or was it simply "Merde!"? The frosh dutifully turned up evidence to back both mots...