Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contact with the personality and learning of a mature mind; 3. To give the student supplementary information in his field. Brief reflection will show that the first two purposes are vastly more important than the third. A student can carry away from college no more valuable acquisition than a method of thought and study. Indeed, it would not be too strong to say that an educational system has succeeded or failed according as it has or has not taught the student this one thing. The methods used in the classroom will probably never be employed in a student's later...
...question whether all countries will accept the Soviet, American, French or British method of disarmament and control. . . . Let the [Disarmament] Conference put two simple questions to its members: Will they agree to any serious reduction of armaments and will they submit to any control? [see p. 16]. . . . Such an answer would be of decisive importance and would sound the death knell of the Conference and therefore perhaps Geneva will endeavor to avoid...
...anything so completely irrational as American censorship. The only way to stop definitely and forever the gyrations of our censors is to concentrate the weight of public opinion upon them; since they are hardened, by the very nature of their work, against derision from the masses, the only feasible method of getting at them is through the courts. Judge Woolsey has it in his power to set a valuable precedent, and to make more difficult the way for the semi-moronic individuals who watch over the public morals...
...study is professional, but in the arts and sciences, it ought to spring from a full-blooded and passionate interest in one or more fields, and a desire to further present accomplishments in them. Anyone who lacks these qualities should be scrupulously debarred. To this end, a more flexible method of admissions will have to be devised, requiring possibly a cogent statement by the candidate of his purpose in coming to the School, and an oral examination to decide his acceptability in the light of this statement...
...graduate attendance at classes in Oxford or Cambridge, and there need not be nearly so many of them as at present. Most material now conveyed from the rostrum would be better obtained from books or discussed in seminars. For the advanced student, the seminar is decidedly the most stimulating method of study and discussion, and Harvard should use it far more. The choice of a field, both for general study and thesis work, needs to be greatly widened. More emphasis is needed, as the late Professor Babbitt was fond of saying, on the relation of one study to another...