Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...increased support which the Center is getting is doubtless due to the fact that it is now in its second year of existence. The members also are enabled to have the $10 charge placed on the term bill, $5 to be billed in November, and $5 in April. This method of collecting the fee was not available a year...
This year the second method is being employed. Every effort is being made to keep the urchins from nefarious practices by showing them that they will be in no physical danger provided that they keep away from the equipment during practice. After practice the managers hope to handle them...
...former method, most generally used during preceding seasons, consists of laying on wherever possible, pursuit, spithetical dissuasion, etc. It must be confessed, however, that this system has been somewhat of a failure...
...this little book the author of "Look Homeward Angel" and "Of Time and the River" tells us about his literary method. He writes and writes and writes, he makes lists of rivers, towns, railways, names, he burns with the desire to set down on paper the secrets of America. Sometimes it seems as though he just has to write, other times he can't write to save him. When he gets so many million words done he and Max Perkins sit down and make a book out of them...
...system "is designed to encourage a genuine mastery of some one field of work, to stimulate a systematic thinking, and to challenge intellectual independence -- the student must under this system integrate effectively a considerable portion of his final two years of college work. The educational advantages of this method over those at present in use are quite unequivocal...