Word: approaching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moon's key to the future offers possibilities for mankind far beyond military protection. In the scientific sense, Singer writes, "man can only approach the future rationally in terms of the present and the past. Even so, it is well to recognize that progress is not always attained in terms of today's conventions and reasonings. Man first tried to fly by flapping birdlike wings, but modern aircraft do not use this principle; nor do modern railroad cars bear much resemblance to the horse-drawn carriage prototypes. There must be a somewhat visionary or even fanciful approach...
Within the classroom, professors defend their right to take an analytical approach to religion and its impact upon the world, not to defend religion or to proselytize. Some typical Faculty attitudes toward the teaching of religion...
...danger of this middle culture," he said, "is that it may permanently debase our standards, as the revised Standard Bible has replaced the King James Version." MacDonald attacked J.B. for its "mid cult approach," which mixes dramaturgy, the Bible, and melodrama to produce a play that "works twice as fast as real poetry...
...committee strongly favored the historical method of teaching geography, an approach which is the strongest in the English universities but seems to have found little favor in the United States. Maas explained that the historical approach would give the Harvard department a "unique" position in this country; could draw on the strength of other departments here (History, Economics); and would reinforce the integrity of geographical research, which some feel is being jeopardized by extreme and perhaps invalid outgrowths...
George Wald's imaginative and challenging proposal for a unified introductory courses in biology means both the final rejection of much of the Bruner report and the opening of a new approach to teaching elementary science courses...