Word: methodizing
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...also cites a study released by Harvard’s Civil Rights Project, which Orfield heads, that argues against percentage plans, which some state universities use to automatically admit high-ranking high school students and have been put forward by some as an effective method of increasing diversity...
...hardly seems regretful about his college career. His attitude is always optimistic, and his method is improvisational...
...became obvious at that point that there were a lot of cases that were actually tried that should never even have gotten that far,” Silverglate says. “When that screening method goes into effect there will probably be a higher rate of convictions [and] less of a possibility of false convictions...
...idea also because it wouldn’t work as a predictor of course enrollments. Our registrar so advised the deans last summer, based on her prior experience as registrar at two schools with preregistration, Boston University and the University of Arizona. Preregistration is a useful method for allocating scarce enrollment slots where many courses have caps. But it does not produce good results if enrollments are open, unless students are not allowed to change courses. In any case, without a clearer picture of the magnitude of the problem—how bad are current enrollment estimates...
During this period, Harvard had no endowment, students earned their entry by reciting Latin and paid their tuition by bartering goods; and recitation was the preferred teaching method...