Word: methods
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...National Building Trades Employers' Association last week met the executive board of the Building Trades Department of the American Federation of Labor at Tampa, Fla. To the meeting President Hoover, vitally interested in expanding construction as an antidote for the stockmarket crash, sent a message: "To find a method for the amicable settlement of jurisdictional disputes is indeed one of the most important. questions in our labor relations. It is capable of solution. . . . I am indeed glad to wish success to your endeavors...
Auto-Education is the name of the method by which the pupil's attention is awakened. The child is given access to a room full of "didactic material''-scores of ingenious, practical devices which he handles and learns to use. There are pieces of cloth on racks for three-year-olds to button and unbutton, bow-knots to be tied and untied, shoe-buttoners to be handled. Infants, when let alone, learn to identify similar buttons and knots on their own clothing, are thus taught to dress themselves...
...popularization of scientific knowledge by professors of the Medical School is the sole aim of the Health Lectures. By their projection of the common characteristics of contagious diseases, the public becomes intimate with the intelligent method to treat them, and what is even more important, with the necessary steps for prevention and the reduction of susceptibility to a minimum. In bringing Medicine to Main Street the profession is making a worthwhile effort to break down the layman's fear of the Doctor...
...might be well to create a special legislature of antiquarians for the due consideration and care of these relics. Spirited debates might be held on such subjects as whether or not the world is flat, and the exact time of Creation as determined by an hour-glass. By this method the ordinary process of law-making should attain a rate of speed almost perceptible to the naked eye, and the Records would be made light enough for six attendants to handle with ease...
Even though the Latin temperament seems to prefer outbreaks in favor of autocracy, and the Nordic revolts a means to further Democracy, the younger generation of the world reverts to riots as the logical method of expression. It is Youth's eternal privilege to be indiscreet...