Word: methodical
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...courses you mention specifically, Comparative Literature 105 was compelled to turn away a large number of students net "Because the instructor wanted to teach a small class" but because his subject and method require intensive discussion. Comparative Literature 166 was overcrowded last year because it was then being offered for the first time, and the situation could not have been anticipated. It should also be pointed out that, between the spring and fall announcement of courses for the present year, four half-courses had to be withdrawn because of the death of Professor Matthiessen and Professor Guerard's unexpected leave...
Although he soon substitutes as his topic "Modern Poetry for the Modern World" for "Modern Poerty and Science," he amply justifies this by expounding the constant infusion of scientific method and theory into modern thought...
...unique method by which male students may earn part of their college expenses through housekeeping turned up recently at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and it has repeatedly received high praises and approval from administrative officials at Harvard...
Beneath the Minnesota ground, however, there is a low-grade ore called taconite, which has never been developed-for lack of a cheap, practical way to extract it. Several years ago, researchers at the University of Minnesota perfected a method of crushing the rock, extracting the ore by magnets and compressing it into pellets containing 60% iron (v. 50% for the open-pit ores...
...last Council Education Committee headed by Poskanzer used a personal interview method of research, and then reported the answers of nearly every student subject. It viewed mainly the formal teaching system, while the "Whole Man" committee hopes to take in all contacts a student makes in Cambridge...