Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Abolition of the post was proposed as one method of lessening the amount of time spent in acquiring the Ph.D. Elder has firmly requested that all graduate students try to complete their degree requirements in three years. The Faculty suggestion was discussed this term during Elder's absence on a speaking tour for the Program for Harvard College...
...College yesterday overwhelmingly approved the Student Council's plan to change its voting system from a preferential to a "direct-ballot" method...
Pontikes noted two advantages to the new "direct-ballot" method. First, counting time for each election should be reduced from several days to "about 45 minutes." Second, under the new system, each candidate will be elected on his total number of votes, instead of by his number of first place votes. This will help candidates who might receive a large number of second place ballots, yet lose in a preferential election...
Attrition of Consciousness. Psychologist Progoff sees many truths of modern psychology in this mystical method. He regards its author as one of the "early experimenters in psychological development" working in a neglected field-"the faculties of the inner life...
Under different circumstances the Federal Reserve might have chosen some less spectacular method, such as open-market operations to increase bank reserves and ease credit. It chose a flat cut in the rates it charges member banks on loans as a dramatic signal to businessmen that it has changed its policy. The increasing worry of economists is not the state of business itself but the businessman's view of business, which has turned alarmingly sour in recent months. Said White House Economic Adviser Gabriel Hauge: "Business is better than business sentiment." And for this lack of confidence the Federal...