Word: methodically
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...this method, says Dr. Holt, "we can guarantee the father to turn out a boy (and in a process that is altogether delightful to him) who will come within 95 per cent of what that particular boy's intellect is capable of achieving...
Both changes in the details of the Rhodes regulations have long been advocated by those familiar with the actual operation of the awards. Past experience has shown that under the old method of choosing scholars by states on alternate years many desirable men have lost the opportunity to benefit by the scholarships, and at the same time second-rate students have carried off the honors in states where the competition was sluggish. By dividing the states into eight districts these flaws should be removed, as annual competitions draw the best men from the entire country...
...President Hoover's method of approach to this problem there is no sign that he is conscious of attacking the problem from a new point of view; indeed, I am quite sure he has no such consciousness, nor any other from of self-consciousness about his relation to it. Yet a student examining the steps taken by the President and the comparatively small number of his public utterances on this subject can find evidence of what is in fact the case, namely, a man with scientific and engineering training approaching the problem of increasing the assurance of peace; a mind...
...peace lies not in the striking quality of one of his proposals that happens to be dramatic. Not does it lie in any other one of his specific proposals. It inheres rather in the fundamental quality out of which these specific proposals emerge; it lies in the method of approach, the method of a man who came to statesmanship after an education mainly in the field of modern science, and after an experience mainly in a field that brought him in contact with natural forces. Looked upon in this way, President Hoover's Armistice Day speech, and the whole...
President Hoover, in his approach to the problem of World peace, is employing scientific method, says Mark Sullivan '00, noted journalist who has been elected an Overseer of Harvard University for the year 1934. In an article which was published in the winter number of "The Yale Review", Sullivan defines President Hoover's theory of peace and shows that the method of Preserving peace advocated by the President is practically the opposite of the common conception of the means for maintaining peace...