Word: methods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appears that the Indians were not among the enemies loved and made happy by Amherst. He held them in supreme contempt. He directed a subordinate: "You will do well to try to inoculate the Indians [with smallpox] by means of blankets, as well as to try every other method that can serve to extirpate this execrable race." Bluff, arrogant, forthright, Amherst is thus seen as a soldier of quite modern scientific resourcefulness, for all the eclipse that his military record suffered through the brilliancy of Wolfe, captor of Quebec...
Adopting the method usually reserved for academic theses in the Department of English, she attempts to find in modern literature an accurate diagnosis of present ills. Such a study first reveals son, Eugena O'Neil, and H. L. Mencken When recovered from these flery charges of hypocrisy, the investigator plunges into a drab slough of respectability in which six-cylindered sedans protect bourgeosie from the necessity of thought. In this literary domain, preempted by Sinclair Lewis, murky morals and stupid minds promenade in clean linen...
...essentially one of information regarding the theatre itself--of facts concerning playwrights, players, managers, playhouses--rather than a consideration of the dramatic literature, which has been adequately covered for his period by Prof. Bernbaum, Prof. Nicoll, and others, in special histories. Prof. Watson's book employs admirably a unique method of synthetic exposition of the various components of play-production, by which he wishes to explain the written drama as the direct outcome of the conditions in the contemporary theatre--unquestionably the most sensible means of approaching the study, since plays and their productions are inseparable. Such a composite picture...
Professor Charles E. Rugh of the University of California has given an old saw a picturesque rebirth. The colleges, he asserts "heap knowledge upon a student like hay" and then say "stack it yourself." This complaint is nothing but the platitude, dear to all educational declaimers, that method is more essential than fact, reason than memory. Still admitting the great age of this truism, one cannot but be glad of an occasional restatement to refresh an ideal...
...these things are recognized throughout the educational world. It is a question of their maximum application through slowly changing practice. And it must be remembered that there is no such thing as an educational process that teaches method in the abstract. Method works on and through facts as inseparably as energy exists through matter. Moreover, there is some intrinsic value in specific facts. Each aye has its environmental permancies: To learn of them, though the process he simply memorizing, is even necessary...