Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Caspar Weinberger's opinion was blunt and harsh. Asked how the four suspects in the Walker spy scandal should be punished if found guilty, the Defense Secretary replied, "They should be shot," adding that he supposed "hanging is the preferred method." Republican Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska, who introduced a bill to make spying for money punishable by death, was even more draconian. "If there is an execution, it should be public and on television," he said. "I want the widest possible visibility of this kind of crime (to) deter people who may be starting down this road...
Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Jules Brody, who recently served two years on the committee, says the current method is democratic and broadly based. "Nobody can tell the committee what to do," Brody says. While he concedes student representatives would be desirable, he ridicules Dershowitz' contentions against the process. "He doesn't know shit about it," Brody says...
Harvard must have a method of preserving the rights of free speech, the lifeblood of a university community. The University affirmed these rights in the 1970 Resolution on Rights and Responsbilities, the document which the CRR was formed to enforce, which pledges that the University will uphold freedom of speech and movement, and freedom from harassment...
...Professor of Music Luise Vosgerchian, explains her philosophy. "There are two ways of educating," she says. The first is for the professor to devote his or her life to research and then present the results to the students who can then "accept or reject it," she explains. The second method, the winner of one of this year's Levenson Awards for outstanding teaching explains, is to diagnose the extent of the student's knowledge and "then proceed to challenge the student...
...danger exists, under Klitgaard's suggestions, that we may be tyrannized by excessive devotion to a flawed method of selection in order to select an elite class based on the wrong principles Klitgaard aptly quotes psychologis David McClelland on this point: the testing movement is in grave danger of perpetuating a mythological meritocracy in which none of the measures of merit bears a significant demonstrable validity with respect to any measures outside the charmed circle...