Word: methods
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...danger of its increasing the military spirit. It would be extremely valuable because it would increase the respect of the citizen for team work and joint effort; it would show him the necessity of having method in connection with effort of any kind...
...generally admitted that the most nearly practical method of establishing and maintaining world peace in the present era would consist of the organization of a league to enforce peace-a league somewhat similar to the Holy Alliance of the 19th century, although it must be broader in scope and must not have its principles laid down by a Metternich. It is to be hoped that gradual disarmament would result from the continued life of this league, but it is obvious that the mere establishment of the system would by no means bring about immediate disarmament. Unappeased national distrust and jealousies...
...many of our own hundred million and odd people prefer the "touch-and-go" method in reading to the permanent joys of possession? The question is not idle in a land vastly richer in popular libraries than any of the countries of Europe, Great Britain included. The set-off is that we have a large public nurtured in the tradition of buying; the foreigner who settles in our reading atmosphere finds to his surprise that we purchase as well as borrow books to an extent unknown abroad. The "shelf" movement had its greatest success here; the new cheap editions were...
...investigation into the Department of Economics by means of questionaires addressed both to past and present students of the department, showed that they considered the results of economic study of cultural rather than vocational value. The answers also showed that they rated the various methods of instruction used in the following order: assigned reading, class room discussion, lectures, reports and other exercises. The results of this investigation should help other departments to decide which method of instruction demands chief emphasis...
...prevented a considerable number of students from registering until after the accepted quarantine period. Thus, as far as transmission by contact was concerned, the students were protected as well as possible. Since it is not known just how infantile paralysis is spread, precautions were taken against all other possible methods of transmission. For example rats have been accused as carriers of the disease, and before the opening of College a vigorous campaign against rats was undertaken. Another suggested method of spread was in raw milk, therefore the milk in all of the University dining halls at the training tables...