Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...railroads accepted this national law (they secured certain guarantees of profits under it). But they have quarreled with shippers and other transportation users about the method of calculating their valuations. It takes far more money to construct a road in 1927 than it did in 1914. It might cost $140,000 now to replace completely a line that 13 years ago cost $100,000. So replacement value is the great quarreling point, because $7,000 profit is only 5% of $140,000, although 7% of $100,000. In one case the railroad earns less than it is permitted (6%) profit...
...afraid he cannot give an unequivocal answer. Mr. Robinson has written a beautiful poem, the best he has published since "Lancelot": but it is not entirely successful. Granted his, method of attack, it is necessary that his characters should be vivid and distinct, their personalities clearly differentiated. Unfortunately they are not. It is, of course, exceedingly difficult to describe two people, both violently in love with each other, and, without describing anything else about them, make them distinct; it is nevertheless a difficulty Mr. Robinson, if his poem was to be really successful, had to overcome. But this the very...
...immediate adoption, the Department of Biology is defying the argument which the system's antagonists propounded when it was first brought to America--that it would prove infeasible in the undergraduate sciences. It is not entirely insignificant that it was the Faculty of Medicine which first adopted the tutorial method at Harvard...
...decision of the Division of Biology to come into the ranks of other divisions now operating under the tutorial system was made several months ago, though the public announcements of the change was withheld until yesterday. Chemistry and Physics, the only two remaining divisions not using the tutorial method, are expected to adopt the English system in the near future...
...Business School which since its creation has drawn men from other colleges and universities all over the country. This, with the Law School has come to be a truly national character. And Harvard College is progressing in the same direction, under the stimulus of the "higher seventh" entrance method, a system especially calculated to attract men from western and southern high schools...