Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...concentrators in given fields, course examinations serve as milestones on the road to divisional, showing how far the student has progressed and how the instructors like his method of presentation. Thus access to past papers helps to improve the technique of writing under fire. Furthermore, when all papers are returned, the onus of careful correcting rests more heavily on the assistants. For, when no examinations are given back, only the very bad or very serious-minded undergraduate ever lets loose a squawk about his grade...
...years, the Class of 1912 has produced only one Bishop of Albania, or, at any rate, only one Bishop of Albania who later became Prime Minister.-j-"Only one member of the Class has caught a Giant Panda.** "We have only one Weather Man who advocates the 'frontal method' (three dimensions) over the 'surface method' (two dimensions). "In all these years, only one member has been elected Village Clerk of Hewlett Harbor...
...angel of publicity. Spotting government concern over eggs, the vigilant New York World-Telegram announced with three-column headlines that chain grocers whose eggs cost them 34? a dozen were selling them for 45?, making three times as much profit as they made in 1935. "There is no known method," said the World-Telegram blandly, "of forcing the chains to reduce their retail price ... so that consumers can use and farmers sell more eggs." Four days later almost every large chain in New York City had cut its egg profits in half...
...Kansans have improved on Nimrod and the late Martin Johnson by developing a new method of rabbit hunting. They merely reach under rocks and grab whatever they can find. To date they score seven rabbits, have embarrassed no fellow Kansans...
Years of extensive research conducted carefully and systematically but its former subscribers, have failed to isolate that elusive atom known to students to Cambridge's better tutoring bureaus as "The Harvard Crimson." But the deductive method applied to a story which apeared recently on the front page of that publication, has finally solved the mystery...