Word: methods
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...sorry I cannot write for the Crimson an article about my way of marking examination-papers, nor even furnish materials for an article to be written by you. Such an article would make it necessary for me to write another, provided any one attacked my method, and I should then be involved in a controversy in which my part would be an unbecoming one, and in which whoever wrote against me would have the irritating consciousness of not being able - or at any rate likely - to effect any change in my procedure by all his logic...
...method would be perfectly satisfactory if our Faculty were only as advanced as yours; but, unfortunately, they will not allow me to condition a man for cutting, "because," they blindly say, "voluntary attendance at recitations is allowed by the regulations." Just as if that were any reason! O, if our Faculty could only be brought to view the matter as yours does, I could manage that no one should get through in my courses without being present all the time; but, alas! Harvard civilization has not yet advanced as far as -. However, I give my men 41 per cent...
...with pleasure that we print this week a letter from Mr. William Cook in relation to his method of marking examination-books. Perhaps, on the whole, he is right in refusing to contribute an account of it to the columns of a college paper. We certainly think it very likely that if he did so his system would be attacked, as he himself suggests, and this would of course put him in rather an awkward position. Whatever may be thought of Mr. Cook's method of procedure, - and we can say from his own account of it that...
...having been left to the Executive Committee of the University Boat Club to arrange some new method of rowing for those boating men who will not be immediate applicants for seats in the 'Varsity, the committee has decided to hold three races on Saturday...
...know just enough about singing to wish to know more, and there are many others who know nothing about it, but would be glad to learn; to all such the present opportunity will doubtless prove a welcome one. Mr. Carey brings to his work a good reputation, and a method of instruction which has been very successful elsewhere. If he can succeed in arousing a general interest in singing he will deserve the thanks of all, but it remains to be seen whether he will be able to overcome our old friend. Harvard indifference. There is certainly material enough...