Word: methods
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Seemingly the Berlin detectives worked on the theory that a genuine Sadist in the audience would react with pleasure if not glee, while everyone else would be revolted or would scream or faint, as many did last week. Results from this strenuous method of crime detection were said to be "promising," and several arrests were made, though no one was actually charged with being a Crime Clubber last week...
...realized that "we are not starting this study altogether in the dark. Some very promising beginnings have been made in other universities." But the Spencerian method is potentially the most scorchingly abusive or sweetly flattering inquisition that an anxious faculty has ever faced...
Although an excellent method for rigid enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment and probably the only one approximating any degree of success, wholesale killings on a slight pretext leave the majority of thoughtful citizens cold. Major punishment meted out for minor infringements has never enjoyed a wide degree, of appeal. In view of the rather disagreeable incidents that Prohibition has foisted on the attention of the American public during the last decade, there is a considerable amount of justice in the fact that the noble experiment is celebrating its tenth anniversary with a plentitude of dramatic, if somewhat disturbing pyrotechnics...
What we have in mind in the present case is a course open to all members of the three upper classes which would take up the whole field of Greek literature in the first term and Latin in the second, by the lecture-preceptorial method, just as other literature courses are conducted at present. The work of the course might be built around reading assignments in translations of established excellence. It is pertinent to note that Yale offers several courses in "Classical Civilization" not requiring the use of Latin and Greek in the original, which appear to be successful...