Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Attendance a tutorial conferences has slowly fallen off within the last few years, so that now, any mention of the system occasions jokes among men in the field. There is apparently no desire for rejuvenation because it is generally felt that Geology is not suited for this special method of education in the same way that History, Economics, or English is. Classes are so small that the personal element, so often lacking in courses dealing with the social sciences, provides all the benefits of the tutorial system without actually requiring it. No informal tutorial program can possibly compare with...
...able associate, Dr. W. W. Walker, found a way to extract inositol from the water in which corn is soaked to make cornstarch. The 300,000,000 quarts of this "steep water" which the cornstarch industry throws away every year would yield by the Bartow-Walker extraction method 1,000,000 lb. of inositol at low cost. Final details of the process have been worked out in the past two months. "Until that time," said Dr. Bartow last week, "it was just a dream with me, and it still seems like a dream...
...necessary and valuable if some use is to be made of that knowledge out of college. As son often happens, the knowledge gathered this way in the university is not needed and is forgotten. To ameliorate this situation, it has been decided to offer more opportunities for an eclectic method of education; a method where-by the best qualities of two highly dissimilar fields might be combined for the benefit of the individual student. The field of History and Science will undoubtedly prove an immense step forward in this scheme and its value will be incalculable if the many opportunities...
...more significant is the concentrators' almost unanimous opinion that the method and scope of teaching in the department is seriously in need of revision. Too much emphasis is laid, they feel, on political theory: they approach, it is felt, is too analytical, too scholastic, in the strictest sense of the term. The department treats too exclusively of the art of government, paying too little attention to its practise. In courses as in tutorial work--throughout the whole work a student does in preparation for his final examinations--the outside world is far too often regarded as a scientist regards...
...future. The government department should regard the modern world not as incidental to the study of government, but as at the back of the entire course of study. What a man says is not so significant as the spirit in which he says it: the department should shift its method of attack from theoretical to practical, from analytical to synthetical; the spirit behind its approach should always be to contribute towards a better understanding of the modern world, and the most feasible means--judged from past precedents--of curing some of society's ills...