Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some extent this method of electing representatives is equitable, for it keeps the Council from being dominated by the more numerous Sophomores and Juniors; but it also contradicts the spirit of the House Plan, under which each unit logically should have an equal number of members on the Council. The way in which the Council is elected constitutes a matter of little practical importance, since things have always worked out so that each House was adequately represented; but this is no assurance that elections will always turn out thus. Under the present system, although every House must have at least...
...Author Herbst is no journalistic realist, no pamphleteer of Communism. Her concern for her characters is never political or moral: she never justifies or reviles them except through their own mouths and for their own private ends. Her objectivity results in a total effect almost alarmingly potent. Though her method eschews purple passages (the description of old Anne Wendel's death is a masterly example of her matter-of-fact style) it gathers a sombre power that rhetoric rarely attains. The Executioner Waits is neither easy nor inspiriting reading, but few readers who persist to the end will soon...
Last night, for the first time in Harvard history, Communism and Socialism were heard from the same platform when Powers Hapgood '21, Socialist leader, and Harry Gannes, editor of the "Daily Worker," spoke in the New Lecture Hall to urge student opposition to all war. One method can achieve peace, according to the speakers, and that is to make both students and workers more loyal to their cause than to their government...
...lack of interest of students in attending the lectures. During the years prior to the institution of this rule the attendance had become annoyingly small. With characteristic shortsightedness the feeling has been that the only way to secure an adequate audience was the enforcement of attendance by the check method, allowing only a certain number of absences. In face of the growing tendency toward liberal feeling in the matter of attendance this policy seems indeed outdated and a relic of a regime which has long since left Harvard. The reason for its adoption was obvious, the lectures were...
Granting that this reason is correct, is the method used to remedy it the logical one? According to the most recent educational ideas it probably is not, Present day, feeling in regard to this sort of thing is that if the lectures are not sufficiently attractive to the student, let them be made so. This might well be apropos if this course contained lectures which were on the whole boring and more drudgery. But it is admitted that they are not, and that the real reason for the lack of attendance is that they are not intimately connected with...