Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...different method of choosing the team will be in force this year. Where-as, in the past, teams have chosen for each debate, this year three groups will be chosen at the beginning of the half year, which will comprise the University squad. They will oppose each other before each contest to determine the best team for that particular debate. Any person not placed on one of the three teams will be advised to take further speaking training, and will be given an opportunity to move up be a series of challenge debated with other members of the teams...
...these men expect to accomplish anything, they have before them a difficult task. Free education to all is admittedly a commendable idea, but the present method of carrying it out is of dubious merit. Formulated by men of democratic principles, the present system is an example of democracy carried too far. Proceeding on the assumption that all men are created equal, and should therefore receive equal doses of education, the founders of American public schools are necessarily constrained to keep scholastic standards down to the level of the lowly, but unfortunately ample, ranks of the barren-witted...
Should the newly created committee devise some method to remedy this evil in the system, it would render a great service. This problem however is greater than that of giving a better education to those capable of receiving it: they must show that any reorganization they may suggest is consistent with the usual misintorpretation of the opening lines of the Declaration of Independence...
Those five months go more rapidly than would seem. The Plebe has new things to do and learn, and by this time he has his individual method of doing the old thing, and a good system of study. And so, the year moves on until that grand time, June Week, comes. This means practically confinement to the Plebe. He is to be seen and heard at meals and formations only. But he knows that when Graduation Parade comes at the end of the week he has passed successfully through a year, meant to test the best and worst...