Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...YORK, November 26-Secretary of State Byrnes and British Foreign Secretary Bevin searched in a secret bilateral sesson today for a method for minimizing criticism among the little nations of the big power use of the vote in United Nations decisions...
Weld said that the main feature of the forums will be a straw ballot on the elective-appointive proportions issue, and the House and class method of representation on the Council. The ballots will also seek to determine whether students consider a referendum necessary to the ratification of the completed document...
...include the one billion dollars which the Government estimated it would need during the fiscal year for such things as loans to foreign countries. Such items have never, in Canada, been classified as budgetary. Of the billion, only $523,000,000 has been spent so far. Under this method of bookkeeping the U.S. budget too would definitely be in balance...
...Yale Clinic, which charges no fees, psychiatric reassurance is combined with a few new wrinkles. One of them: group therapy. Selected groups of a dozen or so patients meet weekly to consider their problems and the Demon Rum. A modification of the Alcoholics Anonymous method (without the religious and confessional aspects), it has multiplied the number of patients that the clinic's limited staff can treat...
Although no alternative system which is any better than the ad hoc method of appointments has been advanced, nevertheless the disadvantages of the Harvard system are manifestly apparent. The hastiness of the ad hoc committee's meeting results in a tendency to magnify the importance of visible, tangible scholarship over teaching, a magnification which the Administration itself has been liable during the past thirteen years. This has often resulted in making the contest for a departmental appointment a mere assaying of foot pounds of published work...