Word: methodically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is nothing inherently valuable in the lecture system. It has always been excused as the only way of bringing the professor in contact with a large number of students. No one could possibly defend it as the best educational method for groups small enough to be organized as conferences. Such groups, particularly in foreign literature, predominate in Sever. Both by custom and by form however, they are receiving the same treatment as classes...
...word letter to Sherman, he renewed his charges against the "Army General Staff," which he said was "a small, powerful military group" using "the Prussian method" of hoodwinking their superiors, Congress and the people. Since under regulations no officer has a right to demand such a court-martial, Captain Crommelin's statement got no further than one day's headlines. "The case is closed," said Admiral Sherman, and that was that...
...clue to an effective treatment for anxiety, say Ruesch and Prestwood, can be found in the nursery. "There is a natural impulse for the normal mother to alleviate the anxiety of the child by picking it up," a method which usually works. Trie doctors do not advocate rocking or dandling grownups, but they insist that an adult's need to share his anxieties, preferably with a loved one, is as great as an infant's. "The successful management of anxiety generated in daily life seems possible only through the process of sharing and communication," the researchers conclude. "[This...
...Zeeman effect," splitting in two like the lines in a laboratory light source affected by magnetism. But Dr. Martin A. Pomerantz of the Bartol Foundation had long doubted the sun's magnetic field. Last summer he set out to disprove the theory by the apparently far-fetched method of catching cosmic rays with sounding balloons near the earth's north magnetic pole...
While waiting for the miracle of a theater building to materialize the University could be taking a second important step. That would be the formation of a faculty committee to study the best method of directing the academic theater once it exists. Whether courses in playwrighting, directing, and acting are desirable, and whether a permanent professional director for student productions should be added to the faculty, are pertinent questions for the University's consideration...