Word: methodically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Eliot might well have added that such a practice is especially dangerous in military education. It tends to develop a fixity of mind and method in a science in which flexibility is essential. Probably in no other line of human activity is the pressure and need of new ideas so great as in war. Upon combating the old and developing new methods and material depends victory or defeat...
...which divided executive authority and establishing in their stead nine departments, each having control of one division of the government. The cumbersome State Board of Equalization, consisting of 25 members elected politically, has been abolished and a State Tax Commission of three experts has taken its place. The haphazard method of making appropriations by the legislature, with each institution and department asking for what it thought it could get and the legislature appropriating what it pleased, has been done away with and a satisfactory budget system is now used in making all appropriations...
...general idea of a comprehensive examination to test the student's attainments in a field of study as a prerequisite to graduation, too much cannot be said. As a stimulus to thought and reading, and as a co-ordinating force, no better method than the preparation the divisional examinations require could probably be divised. Their whole idea is based on the presumption that men who come to college want an education and not merely a degree. Such examinations, demanding as they do a broad knowledge of a subject and not a temporary grasp of a few courses, are, indeed...
...physical defects are corrected when possible, and suitable exercises recommended. By means of a dictagraph the speaker's voice is transferred to a record which can be reproduced, so that defects are plainly shown, and with the help of the coach much more easily corrected than by the usual method. A series of these records clearly indicates the improvement in the into-nation and delivery, as the debater overcomes his faults by this system...
...were present as with that large portion of the class which did not come to the steps of Widener. To make the Senior picnic a success, the Freshmen must swell their subscription in some way, and a drive conducted in the class, through its officers, seems the best method of reaching those who have not yet contributed...