Word: methodically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Williard Gibbs were two of the world's most unappreciated geniuses. I had never heard more of Gibbs than his name, and was casting about in my mind to know how to get the best slant on him in the least time and with the most efficient method. Lo and behold: TIME'S Gibbs article [TIME, Feb. 20], for which my personal thanks. This is service with a vengeance...
Hence, in practice, a democratic set-up promises the greater good. Such a system in each department, operating through the proposed fact-finding committees, forestalls to a great extent personal bias and prejudice. It provides a much fairer and more competent method of ascertaining the abilities of each candidate, both in research and teaching. By its very nature, it makes for strength to throw off the yoke of the Corporation. The reaction of the official faculty committee now investigating tenure to this document of educational democracy should be of the utmost interest...
...Standard method for lubricating the bearings of big waterpower generators is to keep oil moving under forced circulation between the bearings and a cooling system which keeps the oil from overheating. The bearings of the Grand Coulee monsters will operate in a bath of oil containing its own cooling system in the form of immersed water pipes. Thus water will be pumped but no oil-cutting down piping and maintenance costs and reducing leakage hazards...
...often distinct and separate from other things and other men." The should improve themselves by "contact with fellows interested not only in the same subject but in different ones. The should profit by deepening and broadening their associations." In the past few months a practical method of achieving this aim has been quietly developed in Lowell House, a method which deserves attention not only because of the ends in view but also because of the means themselves...
...project, built around Marxist theory, was so successful that it stimulated a heated audience discussion of Stalin and Trotsky, and recreated the exciting days of the 20's when control of the Party in Russia was still in doubt. If proof were needed, that debate proved that the "symposium" method of inter-field discussion can work wonders in the way of enlivening and integrating everyday academic work...