Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Conant's committee, the School of Education, and the Dean's Office can do much to resurrect the secondary schools. Already the English college board has been slapped by the stiffening of requirements for English A. They might encourage the merging of the Educational Records Bureau, whose examining methods are notably progressive, with the conservative, horribly inadequate College Entrance Examination Board. When conferring with, headmasters about candidates for admission they might him as to the academic inadequacies of today's Freshmen--their inability to study, their lack of even a superficial acquaintance with the world's thoughts and deeds...
...clause in Mr. Cobb's will establishing the Fund, referred to Professor Washburn as a "learned and greatly beloved professor, who rendered eminent services to the School by long years of devotion to its interests. By his method of instruction, noble character and ever-friendly encouragement, he was an inspiration to his students to a remarkable degree, and, though half a century and more has passed since then, yet his memory is still treasured in a affection by those once members of his classes who still survive...
Junior Fellow J. C. Oxtoby has developed a new method which makes it necessary to stir one's coffee only once in order to obtain perfect mixing of the coffee with the cream. The mathematics by which he arrives at his new development is too complicated to go into here...
From the U. S. Public Health Service last week came a new, streamlined mass-production method of culturing Rickettsia prowazeki. Bacteriologist Herald Rea Cox of the Rocky Mountain Laboratory at Hamilton, Mont., announced that he had injected the yolks of fertile, six-day-old chicken eggs with viruses of typhus fever as well as those of the related Rocky Mountain spotted fever, which occurs chiefly in Western States...
...than this, English A itself should be radically revised if it is to be worthy of its new importance. Emphasis should be placed almost entirely on practical exposition. Professor Morrison has recognized this in his statement accompanying the new requirements. With a more coherent program and greater uniformity of method envisioned, there should be closer cooperation between section men. And, since the course is no longer to be carried as a spare tire on the Freshman's schedule, its standards should be raised...