Word: methods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...elections were carried on by mail and were conducted according to the preferential method which gives the election to the man with the lowest total in each case...
...statement of the police who were the only representatives to view the play objected only to "some of the dialogue." That deletion of "some of the dialogue" might have rendered the play fit for presentation does not appear to have occurred to Mr. Casey. This method is generally followed in the case of professional plays that bring objectional lines to the Boston stage. Perhaps it makes a difference who is producing the play...
...arrangement is doubtlessly in order to impress youthful minds with the spirit of discovery and adventure. Another aspect, however, is apparent; it is found that by the mere association of ideas children can easily connect Brazil with nuts. Ceylon with tea, or even Java with coffee. By this method, they learn to the exclusion of more important facts what goes under the name of geography...
...many instances the missionaries resorted to a compromise; they declared the most beloved native gods as nothing but incarnations of certain accepted members of the Indian Buddhist pantheon. This method was most successfully carried through in Japan where the first Buddhist missionaries arrived in the sixth century A. D. They were confronted by a firmly established native pantheon in that country and succeeded in identifying almost all Japanese gods with their own, imported divinities. As a result of that procedure, Shintoism, the national religion of Japan, was all but absorbed by the new faith, and most Shinto temples were administered...
...appointment of the Red Book officers by this representative Freshman board is a departure from the custom of having the class officers appoint the chief editors of the staff. More than two months is gained by this new method for it will be possible to have the whole staff picked by the end of a competition in January instead of in March or April as in previous years...