Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Julius likes the greater freedom of choice at Harvard, but prefers the Hungarian method of placing "all civil engineering freshmen together, and having them attend all classes together. Here, you don't know many people in your classes and you lose the opportunity of helping one another. Harvard, though, gives the possibility of expanding your interests...
...need for action. If the Admissions Committee cannot find enough able high school students with the present staff, then more Admissions officers would certainly be a worthwhile investment. The Alumni groups, moreover, must be given further encouragement to look for talent in their areas. While application fees are a method of gaining revenue and discouraging multiple applications, it would seem advisable to reduce if not remove entirely this fee insofar as scholarship students are concerned...
...method to avoid the lack of concern most students display toward Gen Ed A papers might well be to have papers, written for their general education courses, also submitted to Gen Ed A section men for comment and criticism. Theoretically, the papers done for all general education courses are supposed to help teach freshmen how to write. In fact, the average section man in these courses either does not feel competent to comment on the stylistic aspects of the paper or feels it burdensome to do so, and limits his comments to evaluations of the ideas expressed...
...method is ever to be tried on a human heart-disease victim, where would the spare heart come from? Perhaps, suggest the doctors, from an accident victim. By keeping heart-lung systems chilled for eight hours and getting them to work again, the surgeons have now shown that there would be more than enough time for such a surgical swap. Indeed, as optimistic Surgeon Webb sees it the one major problem remaining is the immune reaction...
...satellite fortresses armed with nuclear missiles to shoot at the earth below. All space vehicles must be lightly built to conserve weight. They would therefore be vulnerable, and since they are forced to move on predictable orbits, they should not be too hard to shoot down. One suggested method of dealing with a hostile satellite is to shoot a modest rocket into its orbit, but moving in the opposite direction. The warhead would burst and fill the orbit with millions of small particles. Any one of these, hitting the satellite with twice its orbital speed (36,000 m.p.h.) would have...