Word: methods
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...generally expressed that the persons whose animal spirits find a vent in these periodical disturbances would discover that their proceedings are generally considered rather foolish than heroic. And if they recognized this fact, it is highly probable that they would soon choose some more thoughtful and less injurious method of amusing themselves and their friends...
...Penn. Magazine has a new spelling for us, "Howard." We suppose it is some cockney pronunciation for Harvard, and that the Penn. has taken up the phonetic method...
...promiscuous contests at Saratoga, the balky, unmanageable Rowing Association, will not have been wholly useless, if because of the dissatisfaction they have caused, we are led to adopt, permanently, the English method of a four-mile race in an eight-oared boat steered by a coxswain. It looks now as if our boating men would, after this year, never engage in any other kind of a contest. This state of affairs necessarily causes a revolution in the training of our University crew. The revolution has already begun, and great care should be taken at the outset to establish a high...
...chapel. A bulletin from him appeared this week on the South Entry door of Stoughton, announcing the total number of prayer cuts recorded against each man in his half of the class. Although this idea is novel and entirely original with Mr. Peckham, we see no reason why his method of posting the number of cuts should not be adopted throughout the College. It is certainly a very great convenience for students in general, and would relieve the monitors of many troublesome queries as to the record of individuals, not to mention the influence it would probably have in lessening...
...made at present by every one, but few have time to do the work on every subject as it should be done. The best opportunity that could be given for this work would be a vacation of a few days before the annuals and semiannuals. But there is another method, if this is asking too much, which would neither interfere with the regular exercises of the College nor give any instructor extra work. By publishing the time and order of the examinations three or four weeks before they begin, the Faculty would give us the opportunity for review which...