Word: methods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...disposal of the History department a potent instrument for the further liberation of College courses from the somewhat solitary confinement characteristic in the past. His intimate personal contact with the actualities of his field fits him peculiarly for his part in the present effort towards a pedagogical method which transcends the restrictions of an artificial unity...
...peddle this play. Twice it went as far as the casting process. Never, until last week, was it produced, except for a brief presentation at the Cam bridge Festival Theatre in England. Many a worse play has been produced, but this is not another Street Scene, save in method. It is a cameractual dissertation on life in the metropolis. Sophie Smith (Jane Hamilton) doesn't mean to be bad, but she permits herself to be seduced by an artist. When she finds she is in his way, she leaves him, committing suicide by jumping in front of a subway...
...completely understood the highly complex method of transferring Reparations "in kind" from Germany to the Allies. Last week Parisian gendarmes clapped M. Pollier into jail. People' said he had used his unusual knowledge to cheat the French Government out of some 80,000,000 francs worth of German sugar paid as Reparations in kind...
...pound sterling was down to $3.20 when he took office, is now back to its normal $4.85) his movements arouse rumor, speculation. Financial sharps reported that he intended to visit Governor George L. Harrison of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, surmised that the two Governors might discuss some method of preventing further movements of gold from London to New York with out resorting to raising the British bank rate...
Whether or not this method in operation at Harvard bears immediate fruit in the so-called "brain tests" is an impossible question to determine; results are likely to differ with each individual student. If, however, this is in any way likely, as the Yale News seems to believe, the Harvard system would bear watching during the course of the next few years...