Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...method of education will be successful if great teachers--great personalities--are lacking to inspire and lead as well as to instruct...
...Ballet's lighting and staging method, coupled with its magnificent costumes may very well bring about some changes in the present colorless state of scenic affairs. Thus, the sense of two-dimensionality and the effectiveness of composition and costume that was present in the Egyptian Dance in "Prometheus" seemed to me to be one of the high sports of the evening's performance...
...prevailing method of asking for information puts tutors in the difficult position of having to express vague generalities of little use to the scholarship committee. It their advice is to be worthwhile, they must be given the opportunity to elucidate fully and more specifically...
...Englewood's poor from eating their fellow-citizen's garbage. Englewood's First M. E. Church, not the swankest in town but the largest and richest of the denomination in Bergen County, got its white-thatched black-browed Dr. Ball in 1931 by the usual Methodist method: accepting the man assigned by the local conference. With increasing apprehension Dr. Ball's congregation listened to Sunday sermons out of a liberal's bag of tricks-against "economic greed," against armament appropriations, against restrictions of civil liberties, in favor of all manner of social legislation. Preacher Ball...
...circumstances would not permit placing a man in his chosen House, he should be advised of the reasons, and allowed to petition for assignment to another. By this "laisser faire" method most men could acquire rooms which would be comparatively satisfactory to them. Owing to insufficient capacity, about ten percent of the applicants would have to be denied admittance to the Houses, even before failures eliminated others. This discrimination could best be made on a basis of academic standing, but here again the student should have the situation clearly explained to his satisfaction...