Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...greater intercourse among the undergraduate body. In addition it is hoped that this plan will help Freshmen to cope more intelligently with the problem of selecting a House for their remaining three years in college. Although any plan of this nature has its limitations, it seems the only possible method at present to stimulate the Freshmen to any spirit of curiosity or investigation into the facilities of the House Plan...
Stressing the increasing debate on really live modern issues at colleges today, he sees in these parties "The introduction of a truly scientific method in political and economic questions, similar to the laboratory and field methods now pursued in the biological sciences...
Also, the writer is afraid of what might happen if students are allowed to come in direct contact with creative art outside of a museum, although why it is better to see art in one place than another I do not know. And he extols the very inadequate method of art appreciation through books (which no matter how well written can give only slightly the beauty of the original), lantern slides (which because of their lack of color can only vaguely suggest the perfection of a work of art), and, lastly, hard work (which without the painting is next...
...made at the Law School, is that modern law is based not so much upon legal technicalities, as upon political, social, and economic considerations. The mere addition of courses in sociology, economics, and government to the curriculum would not meet the problem. It is a change in the basic method of approach--a change from a standardized to an individualized concept of each case--that must be adopted if the Harvard Law School is to retain its supremacy...
...BLACK CONSUL - Anatolu Vinogradov- Viking ($2.75). In this historical novel of Haiti and the French Revolution by a Soviet author, Toussaint l'Ouverture. Robespierre, Marat, Lafayette and other great men of the epoch take the stage. Vinogradov's method of fictionalizing history is to incorporate verbatim reports taken from original sources into his stories. Thus the unsuspecting reader is treated to actual state papers, speeches, documents. Vinogradov may have been the first historical novelist to make extensive use of this method, but Guy Endore. U. S. novelist, employed the same technique in Babouk, his novel of a West...