Word: methods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...decrease in enrollment in English A is to be approved not because of any intrinate demerits of the course but because thus is signified the removal of an unnecessary burden from the shoulders of over one half of the present Freshman class. Whereas formerly the only method of escape from the elementary and irritating demands of this subject was through anticipatory examinations given before the opening of college--examinations neither widely advertised nor understood a grade of 70 per cent or higher in College Board English examinations now permits exemption. The result is that all those taking the course...
...football pictures, which are to be shown weekly, beginning October 9, at the University Theatre, illustrate the proper method of blocking, and the protection of the passer and kicker...
...periodic attack upon the methods of high school and college training has been made, this time by Henry W. Holmes in the Atlantic Monthly for October. His article, called. "Chaos or Cosmos in American Education", praises Harvard's method of study--the concentration and distribution scheme that bewails with vehemence the absence of this same system in the junior high and preparatory schools...
Comparatively trivial accomplishments have a disconcerting way of appearing side by side with the mightiest deeds in the history of the great. It may be purely a weakness for the anecdote, but more often it is the recognition of an intrinsic merit of personal method, which ranks the first trans-atlantic passage on a popular par with the first successful attempt to stand an egg on end. And so it may be that unborn generations of Harvard Presidents will mention in the same breath the development of the tutorial system with the creation of a standard and unmistakable...
Bishop Slattery then set forth that the only possible hope of bettering the world lies in individual effort. He advised that each man, one at a time, make himself over and devote his entire energy to that task. Admitting the slowness of this method, the Bishop nevertheless asserted that it is the only sure...