Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last and most important link in the chain is the preparation of food in the University kitchen. Every modern method that has been devised for cleanly handling of food has been installed. Only the highest quality of food is purchased. All the milk and cream is pasteurized. Everything is spick and span. All the dishes are thoroughly cleaned. Every employee in the kitchen is under medical inspection. He must be cleanly in his habits, and he is taught the principles of food sanitation. If ill, he must not work, but is given leave of absence with pay. Refrigeration temperatures...
After President Conant's talk, President William Mather Lewis, of Lafayette College, attacked the philosophy of constant speed in educational method. Attributing emotional instability of youth to attempts of educators to dispense with purely cultural instruction in secondary schools, he advocated courses in music, art, and physical education...
Traditional among the more out-at-elbow and haphazard methods of student self-rule at Harvard has been the raising of funds by the various house committees. Each year this necessary and indispensable evil has to be met to assure the proper functioning of student affairs within the houses, and each year finds an assortment of antiquated and unmethodical systems in use for the raising of these funds. That so much time has already elapsed without a common, practical method having been accepted is unexcusable, and it is all too plain that some common basis must be reached soon...
...relies on the good faith of its members to sign a pledge book in the library; caring not a whit, seemingly, how many members choose to donate anything. Lowell House capitalizes on its dances, relying on these profits for its funds, though the criticism is prevalent that such a method tends to cast too commercial a pallor over something that should be free from the money taint. Adams swings to the other extreme in demanding the presentation of a card, obtainable at a set price, for the use of the library and common room. In short, these houses offer dissimilar...
...reorganization of History 1 after the November hours places only about 40 students in "cramming sections", while almost a third of the class has been assigned to conference groups, formerly the province of a few historical wizards. The credit for this improvement is due to the new selective method of admission, which effectively weeds out poor students...