Word: methods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this provision, which was not emphasized when the policy was first made public, should serve to kill the plan, there would be few to praise it. But this is hardly likely. It is far more to be expected that it will alleviate the pangs of transition between one method and the other. That such a radical change as this could be effected with no academic mortality it would be absurd to comtemplate, and the gradual substitution, of the new reading period for lectures should do much to reduce this mortality...
Harvard University has ventured on the thin ice of experimentation in introducing a European teaching method by which lectures and tutoring will be definitely suspended for two periods of the academic year. Drastic as the plan appears upon surface examination, careful perusal of the details is quite convincing not only of its enforceability but of its likelihood to achieve the result which it is aiming to accomplish...
...muscular Personality with electric eyes; a veritable storage battery of animal magnetism. After the Radio experiments of the other night in Boston, Personality dwindles to condensite. If the talking machine companies should see the point, the gentle art of falling asleep might drive out morphine and gin as a method for dodging the World crisis. A Victor record would become a substitute for an opiate. Putting his favorite record on the Victorla, any hypnotisee would recognize His Master's Voice and doze off into Elysium...
Johannesburg news organs hotly demanded that some other method than a foot race be used to apportion what promises to be a $5,000,000 field...
...needs that the S. F. F. is trying to meet and can be verified quite easily by any who care to do so. As a visitor, it seems to me that this country affords the greatest opportunity in the world today for the cultivation of international friendships. The method of the S. F. F. in its attempts to accomplish the same is to assist foreign students in need and to put them in touch with the best in American life...