Word: methodically
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...previous years. Professor Byerly dismisses as a test the admission of Radcliffe students in the Graduate School. He admits the second point raised by Professor Wendell: the professors lecture at Radcliffe for salaries when they might be doing research work, but says: "If Professor Wendell has discovered a method by which his colleagues can publish the results of their original research with pecuniary profit to themselves, he has only to make it known to become Harvard's greatest benefactor." The third objection to the present relations between the institutions, that it causes the weakening of the intellectual fibre...
...Chess Club has recently reorganized entirely its method of choosing teams to play other clubs. All the players have been ranked approximately in the order of their relative strength, and each member is allowed to challenge any other who is ranked above him. If the challenger wins, the two change places, and a natural readjustment thus takes place which results in bringing the best men to the top of the list. The Harvard representatives in all matches and tournaments, including those with Yale and the English universities, will be taken from the men highest on this list. It is thought...
...progressive development which has marked the team, the defense was taken up earlier than the offense and has been worked to perfection. W. H. Lewis has drilled the team in a method of meeting mass plays which, for its efficiency, depends on aggressiveness and mere strength. Up to the Indian game, Harvard had not been scored upon and the scoring in that game was due to an individual weakness and to the presence of substitutes in the line. Pennsylvania could not make consistent gains either around the ends or through the line...
...there are many reasons why we should not sing at the game itself. In the first case, the noise is liable to interfere with the signals. Secondly, we hope to spend some time and effort in cheering, which is a far more spontaneous method of showing our sympathy or appreciation than by the help of illsung melodies. Also some of us wish to see the game; and this cannot best be done with but one eye on the gridiron, and the other on a song-sheet. Lastly, the assignment of seats by the management has rendered good uniform singing impossible...
...various managers' departments under charge of a single graduate secretary and a treasurer. To the latter position, Walter Camp '80, has been appointed. The system of undergraduate managers will still be kept, but the managers will be under the treasurer's control. This plan is somewhat like the method here. Columbia has also seen the advantages of such an arrangement, and has recently formed a similar union of athletic teams...