Word: methods
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Under Chancellor Robert Hutchins ("The truth is everywhere the same"), University of Chicago students have been learning to hunt for clear-cut philosophies and final answers. Last week, Chicago students were being baffled, but rather excited, too, by a visiting intellectual with a different teaching method. Poet T. S. Eliot, Chicago's guest for six weeks of lectures and poetry seminars, had stated his position at a student reception on arrival. "I am not," said Poet Eliot, "very good at answers...
...Feeling." Nonetheless, Chicago students were finding, there is a method after all in the multiple questions and suspended answers of education a la Eliot. Lecturer Eliot gave the 30 students of his poetry seminar a sample of it last week...
...Overseers are the group who have the final review on all matters of policy around the University. Their method of selection might disturb educators, for alumni always seem to pick the most prominent men running for the offices disregarding any other factors that might be involved...
After 56 years, the greater part of Mrs. Warren is utter deadwood-obsolete in method, lean on wit, smacking of 19th-century melodrama. In 1950, it is much more of a problem play for directors than for theatergoers. In general, the current production is weak. But the two crucial scenes between Mrs. Warren and her daughter ring out with a forthright vigor and vibrancy; and Mrs. Warren (Estelle Winwood) is played with decided style, her daughter (Louisa Horton) with fine sobriety. Twice Mrs. Warren's Profession booms like a great-bellied old clock, even if it otherwise runs painfully...
...long, the skeptics grew silent. Educators began to realize that the board was doing more than providing a standard set of examinations to be given on the same day, at the same clock hour, all over the U.S. It was providing the colleges with the first fair and sure method they had ever had for selecting their future students. It also put the whole field of secondary education on its mettle by providing a set of standards for all schools to follow...