Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even if the administration wished to place more emphasis on a man's teaching ability and success as a tutor, when considering him for promotion, there is no sure and systematic method now in existence to judge him to this basis. Student opinion is rarely consulted or taken into account when weighing a man's values. An instructor's tutees are not asked if they were stimulated by their tutor, or if he devoted sufficient time to making the subject interesting and alive for them. Student judgment as to a man's teaching ability should weigh heavily when...
...seeing the present is to look at its reflection in the past. This is Lion Feuchtwanger's method. The Pretender, his third novel of the Roman Empire, is not an antiquarian romance. It cannot be called a strictly historical novel. Readers will not need the reminder from Ecclesiastes that Author Feuchtwanger quotes: "Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us" (1 :10) to realize that much of the action of The Pretender parallels present European events. To give himself a freer hand, Author...
...play his part, his intention is most of all to introduce a method of approach which allows the tackling of a problem according to its peculiar conditions. "What I do want is to make the young people realize how inexhaustible the means of creation are if they make use of the innumerable modern products...
Professor Williams' conscientious method of presenting every side of all controversial questions in his Money and Banking courses is well known and appreciated. His practical point of view and balanced attitude on questions over which it is easy to become rabid, will help him to perform to perfection his new functions as Dean of the School of Public Administration. The President and Fellows of Harvard are to be congratulated on their outstanding choice...
...vacuum. This is an engineering feat so new that few industrialists know that it exists or what it means. Patents belong to English and Dutch concerns (Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd., Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co. Ltd.. Batavian Petroleum Co.). In the U. S., Eastman Kodak Co. is using the method to refine organic mixtures like cod liver oil, which decompose before they boil...