Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Drastic changes in the method of election to Phi Beta Kappa will be put into effect this year, it was learned yesterday. Election of the Junior Eight has been postponed from November to March; a new election committee has been appointed, consisting of eight undergraduates and seven graduates, in place of the former committee of eight undergraduates; and excellence in tutorial work will be weighed more heavily than ever before, even for the Junior Eight...
...game. It was felt that it would be an undignified juxtaposition to have an athletic contest and a solemn service together. Harvard University is having a Memorial Service on Armistice Day in the chapel at 8.45 o'clock, which is open to the public. This service is Harvard's method of observing...
...Sumner was an "opener of minds," his method was that described by Mr. Keller of "speaking out the truth as a basis of understanding." His phraseology was that of a plain speaking man, courageous in all his intellectual and personal relations, tart when tartness was due and effective. Examples are only too copious; "What are we teachers of Greek going to do if Greek is no longer required?" asked a colleague. "Do?" retorted Sumner. "Learn something else and teach it. I've had to do that, twice in my life." Or again, mordantly, to the class, "In the colonies, during...
...best guide and urge men to put trust in following theirs. For the most part, people shun the things they do badly and concentrate on the things they do well. Practice is thus backed by interest. Naturally student activities will not be graduate activities, but by a method of interest analysis outlined in our 1931 report we show men how to relate past interests to possible future interests. This we believe will, in most cases, actually hitch their abilities to an occupation appropriate to them. But in any case enthusiasm will often overcome the absence of ideal abilities." Augustus...
...administration and the farmers disagree only upon the method of raising farm prices; that farm prices ought to be raised seems eminently patent to both. But not to Pollux and myself. What is needed is not higher prices, but more and faster money. Given a limited flow of money, higher prices simply mean lower physical turnover, less industrial activity, and deeper depression. Only an increase in the flow, that is, in the velocity times the quantity of money, can produce the greater turnover of goods which alone means prosperity for farmers or for anybody else. From the specific standpoint...