Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...South African named R. H. Harris offered to the British Government the patent rights on his method for exterminating the tsetse fly. The device consists of a dummy bullock with an electric light shining through a hole in its side. When the fly approaches to bite the bullock, it is attracted by the light, enters the dummy, cannot...
...Notre Dame system, developed by the late Knute Rockne, and spread over country, has enjoyed such success, however, that its use is steadily increasing, even though Rockne has been dead for some five years. Besides the army of Notre Dame graduates who are teaching the hop shift method of getting a play started in the institutions of higher learning, many others are introducing it to the high school fields. Still other men, graduates of schools besides Notre Dame which used the system, are spreading this rhythmic, colorful offensive weapon throughout the country...
...periods stands by itself as a sign of the times. Whereas students in the main confessed their employment of their time for back work in regular courses, faculty members expressed their pleasure in the good work done on reading period assignments, and advocate even more of this non-lecture method of instruction. Both sides are in favor of easy, interesting reading, and choice of books. Obviously a man who has let his work slide for a month or more will take little or no interest in classes after Christmas; Honors men, on the other hand, need lecture presentation far less...
Since forwarding companies, not the shippers, route the freight, the railroads have a natural interest in forwarding affairs. Among the I. C. C. revelations last week was the method by which New York Central controls U. S. Freight and its big subsidiary, Universal-through a tortuous labyrinth of holding companies and dummy corporations. National Carloading Corp., No. 2 freight forwarder of the U. S., is tied up with the Van Sweringen interests...
...charge are nature in experience and wisdom, their records worth examining. More important, however, is the philosophy behind the activity and their method of coping with their problems. A basic tenet of their theory is that a man must first sell himself to them. Only then can they introduce and describe their marketable product to the prospective employer. Every conceivable way of facilitating alumni employment is used. Personal conferences, the discovery of interests, the compilation of information, the arrangement of interviews between "scouts" and students, the inspection of various plants: these are but some of the more routine matters...