Word: methods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the gymnasium already under construction and with the squash courts naturally being placed below the pool, if they are to be left out, it would be very difficult to raise the necessary money and alter the plans in time. This being the case, the logical method of avoiding the complete elimination of squash courts from the new center of Harvard will be to incorporate some in the two new Houses...
...greater latitude in the rules pertaining to Rhodes Scholarships which now seems assured by the recent decision in the House of Lords should be of great importance in raising the value and dignity of the institution. As has been pointed out before in the CRIMSON, the new method of regional selection of candidates will have its disadvantages, but it at least points to the fact that the trustees are aroused to the deficiencies of the present system and are ready to take definite measures for their alleviation...
Escalade. By dead of night Marshal Chang Tsung-chang-captor of Chefoo, where the hair nets come from (TIME, April 8)-sallied forth last week to capture the walled city of Ninghaichow by the medieval method of a stealthy escalade. Not to be caught napping, however, was the defending Nationalist commander General Liu Chen-nien. As Chang's stalwarts mounted the walls with scaling ladders, Liu's slant-eyed bravos hurled down upon them paving stones and mighty tubsfull of scalding water. Latest cables reported a draw, with Liu asking $200,000 to surrender and Chang offering...
...regulations are turned over by the police to the labor commissioner who makes them work. Thus, since Montezuma, like all schools, has chronic and clonic law-violators, a student-built gymnasium was erected. Last week, in Worcester, Mass., Clark University's Dr. Vernon Jones (psychologist) revealed a new method of teaching sound citizenship to future citizens. The plan: to confront elementary school students with a problem requiring a moral judgment, to let the students, unaided, make their judgment. Dr. Jones relates a story such as: "When he was a child, the late great Labor Leader Samuel Gompers...
...method allotted two scholarships (once every three years) to every state regardless of population or educational facilities. Since not all states regularly produce Oxford-worthy candidates, this plan occasionally resulted in the selection of imperfect U. S. specimens...