Word: methods
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...knowledge is being advanced, he will have a new and exciting experience. Unless he is a recluse this new experience will be passed on to a circle of friends. Even in the first year of college the intellectual interests of a group of students are most diverse, and our method of education continues to intensify this diverslfication. The specialization of each individual does not necessarily sabotage the ideal of a liberal arts college. If the proper conditions exist for student life, the interplay of divergent viewpoints makes for the most liberal and stimulating atmosphere possible...
...this "skeleton" technique which contrasts with the 1916-17 method, often described as "green officers for green men." At the time only a few officers to each regiment had had previous training, and they selected as junior officers likely-looking candidates from among the recruits. The results was slow and misnecessful training, contranting unfavorably with the results expected from the "skeleton" system...
Conference leaders faced with the fact that America's birth rate is on the decline agreed that the decline must be stopped if America wishes to keep her position as an imperialistic power. Exports were at odds as to the best method of increasing America's birthrate. Earnest A. Hooton, Professor of Anthropology, foresees the decline of civilization through fostering propagation of the lower classes, while Thomas V. Moore of Catholic University asserted that moronity has a biological trend to climinate itself. The rest of the summer was, like the weather, alternately hot and cold...
Conference leaders faced with the fact that America's birth rate is on the decline agreed that the decline must be stopped if America wishes to keep her position as an imperialistic power. Exports were at odds as to the best method of increasing America's birthrate. Earnest A. Hooton, Professor of Anthropology, foresees the decline of civilization through fostering propagation of the lower classes, while Thomas V. Moore of Catholic University asserted that moronity has a biological trend to climinate itself. The rest of the summer was, like the weather, alternately hot and cold...
With this view Ernest Simmons, onetime Harvard professor and biographer (1937) of Byronic Poet Alexander Pushkin, has little patience. Simmons denies the widespread notion that Siberian exile altered the thought and method of "one of the most original novelists in world literature." Dostoevski's originality combined 1) his distrust for Western European culture; 2) his belief in feeling against reason; 3) his expert, unprecedented child psychology; 4) his caustic satire, especially of radicals in The Possessed; 5) his great character types-the Meek, the Double, the Self-Willed...