Word: methods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with the United States' bosses and rings, was made in the explanation of his subject, "How to get an education even in colleges. "Students must first find out what they want to know," he pointed out, "and get the answers not from faculties, but from life and the experimental method. Real education consists of stating unsolved problems, never trying again an old method that has failed, and continually improving by experiment new theories, trying them over and over again...
...method of selecting men is the focal point for discussion of the House plan. No more specific announcement of the University's policy on this point has been announced than that "selection of the members of the three upper classes who will occupy the first dormitory unit will be made by the University authorities, and will be of necessity more or less arbitrary." The report of the Student Council's committee will be closely watched for recommendations on this problem. From the plan's present artificial cross-sectioning Harvard can afford to sacrifice a good deal of the appearance...
Though moving pictures are finding an increasing vogue in elementary schools throughout the country few Universities have made an effort to utilize this graphic method of instruction. The rapid come and go the obvious superficiality of familiar movie films have prejudiced faculties against them and it is with something of a start that one reads of their introduction into a Harvard class room. The reels to be projected by the German department are well chosen however in that they attempt what is preeminently fitted to this sort of presentation...
...working openly against Smith. The State is flooded with the anti-Catholic literature. More than fifty separate pamphlets and circulars have been spread broadcast. The extent of this movement has caused much comment as to its cost and who is footing the bill. Much secrecy prevails as to the method of circulation. The literature bears the mark of Flint, Mich., and mostly is put into the rural mail boxes at the crossways, under doors and into small town letter boxes during the night. . . . "All the stuff is much the same . . . holds out the most amazing threats of devastation and disaster...
...stand Tuesday evening opposite Mechanic's Hall in Worcester where a Hoover rally was being concluded. As the throng of Hooverites filed out of the building shortly after the Harvard men had swung into action, the praises of Smith fell upon their ears discordantly. Believing if the most effective method of silencing their antagonists the Republicans began to shout loudly...