Word: methods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...valuable addition to the expert's equipment for judging the antiqritv or genuineness of paintings more than 100 years old, or for estimating in some cases the evidence of authorship on more tangible grounds than style and feeling. This development involves the detection of repaint. . . Also a new method or studying the materials used by the artist, including woods, canvasses, gesso, and other rounds, pigment--both old and new--and the various methods of manipulating these materials...
...first place, must remain large. Yet it also must remain efficient. To do both and continue as one unit in the present sense, is to become a machine. And culture has yet to result from the functioning, however perfect, of a machine. So there is only one possible method of maintaining the tradition and preserving the culture of less hurried years: that is to divide the college into small units under the same head. This, of course, does not mean that Harvard is to be chopped into bits and thown into the jaws of modernity. It suggests quite the contrary...
...committee believes that this condition is the most serious defect in the operation of the tutorial system, and that the remedy lies in finding some method of giving tutorial work its proper due in the earlier years. . . . The following plan is proposed...
...Testament gives two slightly different versions of the Ten Commandments, Exodus 20:1-17 and Deuteronomy 5:6-21. Collating and dividing these Laws into Ten have been a bitter problem. Jews have one method (the Talmudic) ; Reformed (Calvinistic) churches and the Orthodox Eastern Church another (the Philonic, after Phile Judaeus, 20 B. C. to 54 A. D.) ; and the Church of Rome and the Lutherans a third (the Augustinian, after St. Augustine...
...most ridiculous sides of college life had been taken as an accurate portrayal of Harvard students and the life they led. They felt too much pride in the traditions and honor of the University to let such a caricature of it pass without a vigorous protest. Unfortunately the method they chose did little to add to that honor which was so dear to them...