Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their size and by the almost complete impossibility of contact with the lecturer. The selection of representative subject matter must still be largely arbitrary, and in the humanities any selection must omit important works. Even in the Natural Sciences, which are probably most suited to teaching the basic method and techniques of the field, the students have criticized many elements, including the pace of the courses, slow because of the assumption from the beginning, that students know nothing about the field of study...
...This method has now been described as "one of the most important educational discoveries ever made," with widespread application throughout all the social sciences; but at the time of its introduction it met determined opposition from both Faculty and students. Many of the latter so intensely disliked Langdell's changes that they transfered to Boston University Law School...
...pronged opposition to the case method and a subsequent financial crisis because of decreasing receipts from tuitions left the Law School facing the worst crisis in its history...
...Take chances and play it safe, get on the right side of people and knock their heads in if they get in your way, and above all get the breaks," is Clark's formula for the quickest method of raising coin enough to buy mink spats and diamond stickpins...
...preferential system, a first marshal may be elected by less than a hundred votes. The vote should rather be for a certain number of men, not in any special order, with the man who receives the most votes becoming first marshal, and so on down the line. This method will select the best possible committee from the ballot. The importance of such a selection cannot be over-emphasized, as the permanent class committee is the focal point of all future unity within the class and ties between the class and the University...