Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Every man be he Dr. Straton or Joe Forecast should, when he has made a statement, be willing to stand by it, and not wish to crawl out of it like a dastard. If Dr. Straton desires publicity, his is a good method of obtaining it. If, however, he wishes to see articles reporting his speeches written in a tone complimentary to him, let him think out what he's going to say before he says it, and not talk for a half hour extempore at the conclusion of his main address...
Professor Ford pointed out that the work of the department is carried on for the most part by the recitation rather that the lecture method. For this reason the cessation of course meetings will not be so great a change of method in the those using the lecture system more exclusively...
...advanced Romance literature courses, which employ the lecture method, many professors are planning to outline the material to be studied during the respite, and will leave the students the task of filling in the details from reading done in accordance with a prepared bibliography. This outline will in most cases be a rapid survey of the period in the lectures of the week preceding the Reading Period...
...Mathematics department does not feel that it would be safe to dissolve section meetings and lectures for students of undergraduate standing, and is therefore experimenting with the Reading Period method in graduate courses. On the results of this experiment, the extension of the plan to other courses in Mathematics during the second half-year will be based
Lord Dawson of Penn, personal physician to the British Royal Household and to Edward of Wales,* last week testified that birth control was an excellent thing. Said he: "To ask this generation to go back to the helter-skelter method of having families is like crying for the moon." He could find no evidence of physical or moral harm from the practice of birth control, nor did he have any respect for "gloomy forebodings as to the break-up of family life...