Word: methods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...advice, some of it Freud and some of it scrambled. If this adds to the weight of the play, it only proves, in terms of good melodrama, a dead weight. Toward the end, however, as the adolescent events that poisoned Vail's life emerge simultaneously with the frightful method he took to find release, The Closing Door achieves an extremely gruesome ten minutes...
...Leverett, and Winthrop followed during the next year. In September, 1931, the Union was made the freshman dining hall, and the freshmen took over the Yard from the house-bound seniors. The present dining halls went into operation, featuring waitress service. The halls had been designed for this serving method. That everyone should eat in these dining rooms was considered a key part of the House plan. Students and faculty were to miagle informally over the dinner table...
Although the names of those polled were anonymous to the student, the Social Relations Department recognized that this method could lead to abuse of their right to secrecy if the poll got into the wrong hands...
...have their beginnings in the teachers' colleges, where teachers are exposed to a thorough indoctrination of modern pedagogy, without which they could not hope for promotion ("Socrates himself would find it extremely difficult to be certified"). They waste valuable years taking courses in everything from the Rorschach inkspot method of diagnosing personality to the problems of student personnel administration. But what is education really for? The teachers' colleges, as far as Smith could determine...
...Dependence on subsidies or production payments in lieu of a fair market price as a method of achieving [a fair farm] income is unsound and would impose a burden on the whole American economy through tax liability which would raise all costs of production-thereby lowering purchasing power and ultimately leading to a lower standard of living for the rank & file of consumers. [It] would place farmers at the mercy of congressional appropriations for their income...