Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cloistering of the Freshmen in the Yard, with adequate dining hall accommodations, would certainly have much the same result in spite of the smaller and more numerous buildings. Rooming the entering class under the present method in such quadrangles as formed, for example, by Straus, Matthews, and Massachusetts Halls, and again by Lionel, Mower, Greys, and Stoughton, would not give rise to any radical differences from those conditions now existing in any one of the Freshman dormitories. While the smaller buildings might possibly encourage the formation of cliques more than the larger dormitories, this problem could be solved in much...
Being a master in another Eastern preparatory school, I read with great interest your article on the unique new plan applied to The Hill School for determining the advisability of college for each boy. The Hill School is to be highly commended for devising a new method to control the present American passion for a liberal arts college degree, regardless of fitness...
...banking of assets is another method whereby U. S. judges may profit in bankruptcy cases. Deposits can be made in a bank in which the jurist has a private stock holding. He collects the interest rather than the creditors...
...elder Lindbergh, it is true, was never satisfied that any change had come in the manner and method of large banking houses. To the end he saw them only as "accursed burdens upon the plain people." In 1923, in The Economic Pinch, he wrote...
...object of the 'House plan' as proposed for Harvard is social, and in the broader sense cultural. There is no question of sub-dividing the present methods of instruction, of changing the requirements for degrees, or of altering the scope and method of instruction. Professors, assistant professors, and instructors will be Harvard teachers, not teachers of this or that 'House.' Degrees will be Harvard degrees carrying the authority of three hundred years of unbroken traditions. The President of Harvard University will be President of the whole University and all of its component parts...