Word: methods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years it has been his fortune to help undergraduates and others, in public address and by private counsel, to see that scientific truth can not conflict with religious truth. Quick to discern the assumptions of both science and religion, he suggests that both adhere to an experimental fact-finding method of considerable severity, with open mind where the facts are not or can not be known...
...Outline Method of Detection...
...brought about a selfish laxity of resolution quick to find fault and to lay blame elsewhere, and absence of the spirit of cooperation and helpfulness that is indispensable to education. The final responsibility attaches to the American conception of education as a mechanical process that lays stress on the method to the disparagement of the end, and then turns on itself, finding dissatisfaction in the perversion of its purpose...
...charitable. The Budget plan, introduced two years ago by the Finance Committee of the Student Council, centralized the collection and expenditure of money by undergraduates. The Class Funds, collections, church drives and eleemosynary canvasses were eliminated entirely and one initial request for a $ 5.00 subscription substituted. A similar method had already been adopted and successfully practiced at Yale, Princeton, and Dartmouth...
...Beta Kappa. Abolish the Junior eight. Elect eight men in the Senior year, and then elect no more till honors are announced, when all men who get magna or summa degrees should be picked. This method will eliminate to some extent the too great proportion of 'grinds' in the Phi Bete, and replace them by men who are capable of thinking as well as of 'grinding.' It will thus increase the prestige of the society and in this way further scholarship among the student body...