Word: methods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There is not any method, beastly or exquisitely refined, that the police commissars, detectives, officers, and often judges themselves, have not employed in order to inflict the maximum physical pain without actually killing when information is desired. Beatings are administered until the victims faint and then they are revived with cold water and the process is repeated. Boiling water is poured into the ears. Their nails are pulled out. Burning hot eggs are applied under the arm pits, creating incurable wounds...
...dealt capably and creatively with poetry, history, philosophy, art, geology, mathematics, astronomy (nebular hypothesis), crystallography, anatomy (texts on blood, brain and nerves); conceived an air-tight stove, a musical instrument, a submarine, a "mechanical carriage," a means of testing boats by models, a dock system, an air gun, a method of hydraulics. The last 28 years of his long life he turned to speculation on the human spirit, organized a code of conduct, pictured a continuous existence for the soul...
...anyone who has had the slightest acquaintance with philosophy as expressed in the writings of its disciples, the idea of philosophy, forced upon an uncongenial mind, is as crude as its ludicrous. Yet no one in this age of mechanical method and mass manner can call himself a true student, does he remain uncongenial to philosophy. For philosophy, to mention the obvious, is the circle of which all the sciences and history and literature and the segments. It is man's attempt to see the whole in a manner abstracted from the prejudices of flesh and the trivialities of custom...
...remain little more than the culminating expression of fact-knowledge, the ambitious scholar is thus able to spend his senior year in work sufficiently individual to justify his continuance in the college. Such a means of proving his acquaintance with scholarship is too near the under class of preparatory method. That it is needed as a justification for further work in a less frigid manner is obvious--as obvious as the fact that the senior candidate for distinction has passed beyond the desire for such expression of accomplishment. Freed from the necessity of developing his academic interest, under...
...really one more movement in the right direction, as far as Harvard undergraduate education is concerned. That the plan is, in the category of its own helpfulness, wise and essentially necessary is true. One can only hope that in the ramifications which develop from its function, some method may be devised whereby every undergraduate who, early or late, appreciates what the college can give him in cultural and intellectual understanding, is allowed that freedom from routine entanglements, which alone can promote true cultural and intellectual advancement...