Word: methods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...articles in the current issue of The Nation concern themselves with the question of higher education. Glenn Frank discusses the "Revolt Against Education" and suggests a method by which the colleges may more adequately effect some progress against the huge flood of learning which is now engulfing them. Professor Mussey of Wellesley has another and more personal suggestion. Both are, each in his own way, attempting to outline one particular flaw in the present college system. And both, therefore, are merely polishing facets of a large and imposing, many faceted jewel. Yet even such isolated endeavors are in their fashion...
...right in believing that something should be done to fit the college man for his new world. Yet the question of method is difficult to get at from the abstract. The system is not everything. In fact it is very little. The man is really what counts...
...better "Diggers" [TIME, April 25] would be, for instance, if you had told about Halvor H. Skavlem, a 78-year-old Wisconsinian who has devoted many years of his life to studying Indian relics and is the only white man who has ever discovered and imitated the lost Indian method of chipping flint arrowheads with bits of bone and a crude hammer! Recently he gave an exhibition here, chipping out perfect heads in 15 minutes each, with motions that looked so simple until one tried them...
...abolished in the general science course. Although objection to the average elementary laboratory course is well founded, it does not follow that all such work is valueless for the non-scientist. On the contrary. I believe that the student can only arrive at a real appreciation of the scientific method by actually doing experiments himself. In well-conducted laboratory work, students do not know definitely enough what the results will be to spoil the experiment as such, and experience in observation and manipulation is essential to a realization of scientific progress...
...rest two gorgeous pleasure barges built for the mad Emperor Caligula, loaded with many of his treasures and sunk inexplicably in this volcanic lake. Last week Premier Mussolini ordered the Ministry of Public Instruction to take steps for the recovery of these galleys. Experts opined that the only feasible method will be to tunnel into the side of the extinct volcano of which the Lago di Nemi is the crater, and thus drain off the deep water which thwarted two previous attempts by divers and grapples...