Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After more than a week of controversy and close examination of election procedures, the Student Council and the Election Committee have produced a revised voting method which is a compromise between the recommendations of the two groups. The Council advocated a modified preferential ballot, whereas the Election Committee supported a purely numerical system...
...lecturers fall into that category; and all seem to be increasingly concerned with the recitation of factual data. The amount of personal contact between student and lecturer in a large lecture course is negligible. One of the most outstanding facts about the lecture system is its impersonalized, off-hand method of presentation. Except as far as they are restrained by a rather fluid attendance requirement, students can take lectures or leave them. Undergraduates walk into a lecture, listen long enough to find what is on the day's agenda; if they are uninterested, they walk...
...integrated unit. This lack of organization can also be found at the next level--the field of concentration. A student takes a number of courses in a given field, which may cover an extremely broad area of knowledge. If the student himself does not find some method of relating this conglomeration of courses, they will remain as disembodied entities...
...Journey was a thoughtful but disappointing study of New York liberal intellectuals. Saul Bellow's The Victim, for the most part a well-controlled blend of realism and parable, was the year's most intelligent study of the Jew in U.S. society. Bellow's method recalled-without aping-that of the Czech genius, Franz Kafka...
...Council has not yet decided voting procedure. While the '48 Nominating Committee prefers a straight numerical system, the Council-appointed Election Committee wants modified preferential voting, and the Council itself favors straight preferential voting. One method must be decided Monday night at the scheduled Council meeting...