Word: methods
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...would get the first shot at living quarters for the coming school year. Lot-drawing is carried out by classes, and a ratio of the four classes is maintained in each dormitory. While this is seemingly a simple and equitable system for assigning rooms, one flaw makes the current method unfair...
...remedy for this cutthroat method of beating the numbers racket, which would still allow those who sincerely want to move as a group to do so, is comparatively simple. A group should submit its intention to move as a unit to the Dean of Residence prior to lot-drawing. The group would then take its chance as a unit, drawing only one number. Alternatively, a group could average its number, as Wellesley groups must do under a similar system. This would give both the individual girl and those who want the privilege of staying together an even chance to pull...
...black financial magic by which governments raise or lower the value of their currencies amid incantations of economic mumbo-jumbo is apt to baffle all but the most sophisticated spectators. But last week the government of "backward" Indonesia, whose guilder was badly inflated, devised an ingeniously simple new method that anyone could grasp, for letting the air out of their currency. Indonesian Finance Minister Sjafruddin Prawiranegara ordered Indonesians to get out their scissors and cut in half their paper money above five guilders...
...they are entitled to pour scorn on other subjects from a very great height." Standen does not deny that their practical results are admirable ("Better things for better living . . .," etc.), but unfortunately "it is not the results of science that they advertise most; it is always the 'scientific method' or the 'scientific attitude,' or a variety of other hidden, mystical virtues...
Assistant Physics Professor Willard Geer of the University of Southern California liked to tell his class to go out and invent something. Once, while lecturing them on the "scanning disk" method of color television (TIME, Nov. 28), he suggested that better reception could be had with an electronic tube- if someone would invent one. When he mentioned it to his wife that night, she said: "You'd better get busy and invent it yourself...