Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...principal work of the Littauer School, then, is carried on in seminars and research projects. The seminars, participated in by graduate students, Faculty members, and government experts, are not intended to serve as a method of instruction, but as a process of mutual learning, approaching problems of government administration with the attitude of "We don't know what the answer is, but we will use every available device to find...
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Landis further advised that the student pursue science to gain some conception of the scientific method, both as regards its possibilities and its limits. Lastly he urged some training that would lead the student back to original sources so that he lose complete reverence for the period page...
...proposals of President Hutchins and of Dr. Wood come a bit early, for whatever need there is for a revision of the liberal education will not come about by the mere say-so. They will come only after the slow, experimental, trial-and-error method which has characterized the development of the American school system. What is more important is the student's desire for a change, since it will be up to him to accept or reject and to prove the success or failure of any new plan. After due consideration of what has gone before, all that...
When the reactionary bigwigs of a large German hospital fire him for being too independent, young Dr. Ehrlich enters a long life of prodigious work--during which he finds the method for recognizing tuberculosis germs, discovers a diptheria serum, and gives the world a cure for its devasting "social disease." At a very swank dinner party one dear old lady asks Dr. Ehrlich what is working on now. "Syphilis," he replies, and thirty months drop open in shocked amazement...