Word: methodical
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Thousands of students who have made the nine o'clock dash up two long marble flights to the delivery desk must have asked themselves why a more simple and expedient method was not devised to return books on the ground floor. With nine o'clock classes in the offing it is an unnecessary waste of time and energy to climb two flights when all that is needed is an attendant and a few large boxes to receive them at the entrance of the building...
...last 100 feet of the 225-foot power plant chimney now being demolished may be knocked down by heavy weights swung by a derrick, it was disclosed yesterday by the American Wreeking Company. Another method which the company may use to topic the pile is known as "burning under". Five wooden blocks, soaked with gasoline, are inserted in the base, the surrounding bricks being removed. Two of the blocks are then ignited, and the stack falls...
...main activity of the Institute was under the surface. Every Institutee, all the time, was supposed to practice The Method; to be aware of all bodily movements as though someone else were making them ("observation with non-identification"). The dances were valuable in promoting the objective study of one's own movements. This regimen was part of an attempt to attain complete self-consciousness?chemical, physical, psychological awareness-of-self. Achieving this, a man might properly understand himself as part of his environment, might develop will, avoid being machine-like in a machine...
...appointment of two Harvard men to a commission which will hasten to San Francisco to investigate the Coffee-Humber method of treating cancer by adrenal extract was announced on Saturday. R. B. Greenough '92, assistant professor of Surgery in the Medical School, and C. C. Little '10, will collaborate with the San Francisco doctors in their experiments with cancer sufferers...
...proposal of the Committee to award scholarships to twenty preparatory school students, the recipients to be named by the respective headmasters, places the grants in the hands of men qualified to judge more capably of the qualifications of these prospective Freshmen. Much more than the trial-and-error method which the University of necessity now assumes the new plan will have the benefit of first-hand experience to make the awards on a basis of merit. By its very nature a scholarship is not financial aid alone: It is a monetary reward for merit, distributed to those who most need...