Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week three University of Chicago doctors announced that they had discovered a cheaper and quicker method of certifying pregnancy. Drs. Aaron Elias Kanter, Carl Philip Bauer and Arthur Herman Klawans use a little carp-like fish which costs only 30?. Within 24 hours after a female bitterling is placed in a quart of fresh water, which also contains two teaspoonfuls of urine from a pregnant woman, there grows out from the belly of the bitterling a long tubular appendage, called an oviduct, through which in the ordinary course of nature she would expel her own eggs. As soon...
...Faculty can be strengthened only by the injection of new blood into its academic body. One way is to bring in distinguished scholars and teachers from other centers of learning. This method eliminates some of the incalculable risks of Faculty appointments since it makes possible the picking of "winners" after they have won, but it is no longer as dependable as it once was. As Dr. Frederick P. Keppel, president of the Carnegie Corporation, recently wrote, "Harvard is still 'princeps,' but no longer 'facile princeps"; and the story is current that at one of America's great universities...
...correct in believing that Harvard has been denuded of all its enthusiasm for anything--a not inconceivable belief--such a statement only aggravates the situation. Rather than instilling in undergraduates a serious consideration in affairs of the college, the method which he suggests attacks the very roots of such a serious consideration. The statement shows, if it shows nothing else, the amount of enthusiasm and seriousness with which he approached the elections...
Such a remedy strikes at what has become to be the particular virtue of the Tutorial System, the intimate relationship it develops between an eager and an advanced mind. Precisely because no two men are alike, the method and approach of one cannot help differing from that of another. Even if students were grouped so that the two intended to work together did so congenially and at approximately the same speed, and with generally similar thoroughness, they will have lost the benefits of intimacy with the instructor. In the personal friendship which frequently arises between tutor and tutee is something...
...realist, the Pope at the same time knows that many loving Catholics who fear to have children defy his pontifical frown. Therefore he decided that it is morally right and proper for Catholic couples to utilize the wife's monthly rhythm of sterility and fertility as a natural method of contraception...