Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...discharge of electrified particles is the method of melting fog proposed by Alexander McAdie '84, director emeritus of the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory, in his newly-published book "Fog." While primarily intended for use in fog-bound harbors, the system can be applied in city streets as well...
...realize it, today the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports is faced with the prospect of a possible alteration in the fundamental principle of participation in athletic contests at Harvard. Stated briefly, the Committee must decide whether or not it will countenance a swing from the laissez-faire method of athletic competition to a system involving "high pressure" instruction and heavy emphasis on pure victory. Or, expressed more simply, the Committee must decide between the goal-line desires of some of its more enthusiastic alumni and students, and the desirability of keeping football a game which will be enjoyed...
...rule that will make a precedent for the future?...I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life. There, before us is the brew. Not a judge on the bench but has had a hand in its making....In the field of constitutional law, the method of free decision has become, I think, the dominant one today. The great generalities of the Constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age. The method of free decision sees through the transitory particulars and reaches what is permanent behind them....The eccentricities of judges...
...mentions several methods of dealing with dyslexia cases which have been used with moderate success. Among them is the system employed by Hinshelwood, an English physician, who first dealt with a number of these cases by resorting to the discarded alphabet method of learning to read by spelling out the words orally. This, Dr. Dearborn says, at least guaranteed the right direction of eye movements and their correlation with a sequence of letter sounds. For older children, typewriting has been utilized. This has the merit of being a bi-manual activity, and is thus suited to the ambi-dextrous...
...Method of Testing...