Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rehearsal night by a mysterious order from above. Now, without benefit of Government, they present it on their own bare stage for special performances. Author Blitzstein sits on the stage, plays his music, occasionally joins the actors as they step forward to sing or speak his pieces. If this method is from necessity-the famous, misnamed Russian Realistic Theatre uses it from choice and with stunning effect-it proves, nevertheless, that if a playwright has enough to say he needs neither sets nor costumes to help him say it. What Mr. Blitzstein has to say concerns what happens to bosses...
...there exists a general agreement that more trees must be planted, the spring problem has already been settled in its general aspects. The disposal question presents a more pressing demand both because snow is now upon the country, and because nobody has ever invented a machine or discovered a method of quickly removing the greatest natural damager of winter intercourse...
...hoped that this selection by a more scientific method will in time reduce "significantly" the large number of men who do not pass their first year work
Termed by Metcalf "the most important thing that's happened in library work in a long time," the new method will enable Widener to secure copies of books and manuscripts which it would be impossible to buy. Inter-library exchange of valuable works will be facilitated, and the difficult problem of proserving newspapers will be selved by filming them...
...Administration, although still in an embryonic state, has at last been defined and planned out. It has been argued by many who profess to be authorities on the subject that the only way to train men for government service is to apprentice them to those in public offices. This method is the only one which has been tried out, and its results do not preclude the possibility of the even greater success of a newer and perhaps more progressive training...