Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Conant in his annual report made considerable mention of the fine cooperation of the press in devoting generous space to last year's intellectual convention at Cambridge. An informed guide service would be an excellent method of continuing this appeal to the public. Actual contact with the inner workings of the University, its museums and its lecture halls, ought to stimulate greater interest in higher education and a deeper appreciation of its services. Next summer, as an aftermath of the Tercentenary, there will probably be an unusually large number of visitors in comparison with former normal years, and consequently...
...spell broken, we went to look at the sign over the elevator shaft. It was the newest method of retailing crown jewelry and such things that we know. It was a method so daring and courageous in spirit that no Roosevelt defeatism will ever be able to overcome it. For the sign, in careless crayon letters, read out to the clientele, "For merchandise, yell down hole...
...good reason why he had no such intention was that the best remembered precedent for it was Woodrow Wilson's stumping expedition for the League of Nations. To that method belonged the stigma of failure and the bad aftertaste of an unpopular issue. Another reason was that if Franklin Roosevelt made such a tour it would be construed as an admission that the fate of his Court plan was precarious. Best reason of all was that Franklin Roosevelt had something that Woodrow Wilson did not have: the all-pervasive radio. He had scheduled a radio "fireside talk" for next...
...reforms in the Chicago Law School's curriculum as outlined by Dean Harry Augustus Bigelow will rearrange the traditional pattern of U. S. legal education. Chicago Law next autumn will offer a four-year course which takes the emphasis away from the casebook method introduced some 65 years ago by Harvard's late great Christopher Columbus Langdell. The approved U. S. law course lasts three years. Chicago's students will still study cases, but besides such standbys as torts, contracts, property and procedure, the new Chicago plan calls for courses integrating with the law materials of economics...
...annual report to the Overseers released last night President Conant reviewed the work of the past year and proposed to create a new method "of inoculating our student body with that educational virus which alone maintains its potency throughout life". He would do this by creating a non-departmental and non-credit, in a sense "extra-curricular", scheme of study in American History...