Word: methods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meeting held last night. Lewis will be in charge of the assignment of rooms in the Yard for next year to members of the present Junior class. The other member of the Committee are not yet been chosen but will be announced by Lewis in the near future. The method of room allotment for next year's Seniors will not be determined until the new Committee has been formed and held its first meeting...
Vernon Kellogg was a young professor of entomology and bionomics at Stanford University when Herbert Hoover was an undergraduate. Kansas-raised (Emporia), he had studied at Cornell, Leipzig, Paris. He had the scientific method that Hoover valued and was developing. While Hoover engineered in far parts, Scientist Kellogg stayed at Stanford, collaborating with Dr. David Starr Jordan, teaching classes, gaining a quiet renown. There were Hoover-Kellogg reunions whenever the wandering engineer returned to Palo Alto. In 1915 the engineer sent a call to Palo Alto and the quiet scientist went to Belgium to be a willing Hoover...
...principle on which the Canadian boundary is secure is the only method on which Anglo-American security can be maintained...
Steffens stated, in developing his theory, that, "There is basis for a science in government and politics," beginning with the observation that in an emergency in every country of the world a strong man can seize power. The method is dictatorship and an organized minority. "The Bolshevik, minority," as Steffins said, "waiting amid the first mob democracy in Petrograd, waited for its splitting into minorities, and seized power at the psychological moment." Lenin stated in defense of that course of action, during an interview with Steffens, "It will be more significant in history if we try out the Marxian system...
...University Library, including all books owned by the University, the professional schools and special reference units, totalled, at the time of the last official count, 2,784,300 volumes and pamphlets, the distinction between volumes and pamphlets being an arbitrary method of counting unique to Widener...