Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...censor-delayed dispatch from India printed in the Christian Century last week revealed that the British Government was taking extra precautions that missionaries should render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's. The method: a revised memorandum covering "aliens desiring to undertake missionary work" in India and Burma. Since World War I the British have required every foreign missionary to pledge that he would "do nothing contrary to or in diminution of the authority of the lawfully constituted government in the country to which I am appointed." The mission board or society which supports him now shares that...
...person I ever heard of or read of in history or in fiction") wanted him to be an artist. So Seton straddled both careers, became rich & famous. Studying art at London's Royal Academy School, he planned a book on the birds of Canada, years later had his method of classification adopted by master Ornithologist Frank M. Chapman. He illustrated Chapman's and Thomas Nuttail's bird handbooks, began writing and illustrating stories...
...majority on the electoral college. But in 1940, as in 1936, the closest estimate of the popular vote was made by quiet, curly-haired Elmo Burns Roper, who has never made any great hullabaloo because he was one of the first to undertake political polls by the scientific sampling method and still makes no extravagant claims for his surveys...
Roper still considers the quadrennial roundup of U. S. citizens at the polls chiefly as a check on the accuracy of his surveys-a means of calibrating for errors in his sampling method. He pays close attention to the phrasing of questions in his interviews, in order to get the real beliefs of inarticulate or evasive citizens...
...that a comprehensive paper, carefully done, is invaluable as a means of bringing a subject into clear focus. It also supplies experience in research and organization night of yawning over Widener tomes. In many courses, papers might well be substituted for hour exams, which are at best an unsatisfactory method of testing a student's knowledge. Not infrequently these mid-semester quizzes cover such a broad range of material that a student can get a better mark merely by reading over his lecture notes than by outlining the assigned reading. In other subjects an evening of work, even...