Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...utterly demolished, but a sensible functional devolution of international activity is proposed to take its place. Emphasis is justly laid on the atmosphere of technical cooperation as a surer route to internationalism than the pathway of political ideas. The need for international force is sanely handled; a modified method of representation of small nations in the League Assembly is proposed. If one views the present era of economic nationalism from the alarmist point of this is of course all drivel...
...abstract I should like to see this doubtful method of control and measurement of intellectual progress abolished. I recognize, however, that the abandonment of this typically American pedagogic device would demand extraordinary readjustments. These readjustments would be required, notably in the attitude of average American parents who would almost certainly be distressed beyond measure if a son or daughter failed to obtain an A.B. degree at the end of a period of study; and also in the attitude of State School Boards...
...large significance to all sufferers from subnormal thyroid or parathyroid glands was last week's news from Johns Hopkins where Professor Harvey Brinton Stone has developed a method of cultivating grafts so that they take lasting hold in a new body. Thyroid and parathyroid happen to be the material which furnished him spectacular results. No longer did his hypothyroids and hypoparathyroids need glandular extracts. His method may apply to all kinds of tissue. Possibly diabetics and other glandular sufferers can get similar relief...
...with this ideal of education so long as that ideal is in its infancy. In the beginning an abandonment of course credits might have meant formlessness and confusion. But as the tutorial system and the house plan mature they will produce a kind of undergraduate for whom the course method of instruction is both too elementary and too dogmatic, for the man who has learned to the stage where progress must come by asking questions, of men and of books, is not satisfied by an orderly and unilateral presentation. If the degree is awarded on general examination as well...
...rather idealistic to suppose that a student who has spent one-fourth of his college course learning the technique of war might not, in a moment of weakness, succumb to a desire to exercise that technique? Finally, since the study of syphilis involves the examination of every method of curing it, it is not unreasonable to suggest that military science should consider every method of curing the world of war, and that R.O.T.C. would become academically acceptable if a number of the lectures were delivered by competent pacifists. Comstock Glaser...