Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Republican majority, the Tariff Bill was rounded into shape for final passage by the House last week. It was not a pretty sight for soft-hearted political theorists. But that large sector of U. S. citizens which exalts the House over the Senate, which praises its "businesslike" method of legislative procedure, glowed with fresh admiration as it observed a tight little political autocracy make the fewest necessary concessions to muster a party majority behind its economic will and then, under a special rule, impel the measure through to passage...
...social revolution if Ramsay MacDonald becomes Prime Minister again. The social revolution is already in full swing owing to income tax and death duties and the breaking up of the old landed estates. The Labor party ... are utterly unable to find any vital differences of philosophy or method between themselves and their opponents...
Three U. S. planes took on their fuel while in flight last week. Two of them used the well-tried hosing method. The third used a new catapulting device...
...discussion of the report on Vocational Counsel which has recently appeared in the CRIMSON, must be prefaced by the statement that the committee has done an excellent piece of work they have analyzed not only the problem but the method of an attempted solution in an extremely sound manner. Furthermore, they have obtained a clear insight into the needs of undergraduates and have made a penetrating study of the possibilities of meeting those needs...
...guidance be? In the first place, in the opinion of this committee, vocational guidance should aim to be human rather than scientific. It is a problem in helping young men find themselves, to be answered by sympathetic human contact rather than by statistical analysis. There can be no single method and no sure-five system. The committee is strongly opposed to any idea of routine measurement of capacity or pigeon-holing of personality by any chart system whatsoever. Intelligence tests should be taken as indicating perhaps the possession of capacity but never the lack of it. Records of grades...