Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...preliminary competition will be held in Widener N from two until 5 o'clock, on April 14. Each competitor will write on one or two topics which are chosen by himself from a list of ten or 12 suggested by the events of the past few months. The method of presentation as well as a knowledge of facts will be considered in determining the winner...
Many parents are already assessed by what President Angell terms rather unfortunately, "hit or miss methods." These methods, endowments, alumni funds, and personal gifts, are too valuable from both a monetary and a sentimental standpoint ever to be abandoned. But they must be added to,--whether or not by such a method as that suggested above is no matter--if the coming generations are to be educated by an acceptable type of man, if a teacher is to live on as high an economic plane as a white wing...
Gypsy Smith's evangelistic method is simple. He gets the cockles of the audiences' hearts working emotionally with a few hymns and one of his famed talks ("From Gypsy Tent to-Pulpit" or "Three Years with the Boys in France"); then he asks all who "intelligently feel the need of Jesus, and mean to give themselves to Him, body, soul and spirit," to rise in prayer. He does not make them trample moldy sawdust before the public gaze. His converts are led into the "inquiry room" where pastors and personal workers act as nurses after a surgical operation...
...until after a long campaign against smut-writers and publishers that he turned his eye to the devilments of the quack doctors and abortionists. It was his practice to write under a false address, or disguised, to pay a visit to these evildoers. This led to mistakes but the method was not without value. It was Anthony Cornstock who decoyed the notorious Madame Restell to jail and then drove her to kill herself. When he heard of the latter event, the reformer said, "A bloody ending to a bloody life." While he was not alone in his campaigns, few associates...
...blessed with a peculiar psychology which enables him to look on sport as sport and not as a grind. The Oxford or Cambridge 'hearty' talks rowing, thinks it and, in fact, lives for nothing else. At this point I might refer to what we would consider a most inefficient method of selecting and developing a crew. In the early fall at Oxford the president of each college boat club nominates whom he considers the two best oarsmen in his club, the coaches nominate other men whom they consider promising and from this group three so-called trial eights are formed...