Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This method of teaching has long been defended and is called humanizing knowledge teaching extension courses to background and is characteristic of correspondence courses and courses which give a mastery of English literature by spending fifteen minutes a day. The college student, however, is expected to have a sufficient amount of brains and intellectual interest to master a subject without resort to armchair talks" or popular lecturing. If the Freshman is not treated from the first as a mature individual, capable of accepting responsibility and is nurtured upon spoon-fod knowledge, he will soon find college work too much...
Flutter of wing or tail surfaces may wrack a plane to pieces when it reaches a certain periodicity and intensity. With military planes approaching 300 m.p.h., wing flutter has become a major problem. The committee has developed a method of foreseeing and guarding against structural fatigue and failure...
...York Law School adv.--"Dwight Method of Instruction." LL.B. in two years; LL.M. in three years. High Standing. Send for catalogue explaining method, etc. George Chase, Dean...
...university work for undergraduates, Yale joins Princeton and Harvard, where similar plans are already in effect. Harvard has the tutorial system for all upperclassmen, while Princeton has the precentorial system; and the "No-Course Plan," as the "Alumni Weekly" points out, to all intents and purposes introduces the tutorial method of instruction for those who work under it. In most departments at Princeton the thesis is compulsory, while at Harvard it is a prerequisite for honors...
While Yale does not go quite so far as Princeton in this direction, it is interesting to note that this new method of upperclass study will be linked to the House Plan, since the tutorial work will be carried on by House fellows, who will have nothing to do with the making out or grading of examinations at all. This will be done by committees from the various graduate faculties. This seems a step in the direction of divorcement of tutorial work from all ordinary teaching, which will be viewed with interest by all educators, especially if it goes...