Word: methods
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...well recognized that the present method of selecting managers is unsatisfactory. Generally speaking, a good manager must combine three qualities: executive ability, cheerfulness in doing protracted and often disagreeable work, and that indefinable faculty of getting on with the members of the team called "personality." There would appear to be nothing in common between the competitions now conducted and the finding of such...
...ordered according to an arbitrary percentage of calculation which is supposed to bring out the degree of preference. It may be noted from the start that more than three fourths of the Seniors have refused to answer the inquiry, probably because they recognized the misleading character of this method. The philosophy department offers five introductory courses. Not a single one has the honor to be in the first half of this list of sixty-two courses. Does that really suggest that they belong to the least desirable offerings of the University and that a student would do better to choose...
...long been felt that there is altogether too much written work required of the average undergraduate at Harvard College. In some lecture courses, theses are absolutely essential as there is no other method, except the examinations, of testing the students' ability, but in many other courses it does seem that reports and conference papers are crowded on us in too great profusion. The result is a tendency to turn out superficial and hasty work, and in some cases to resort to unfair means. If there could be some reduction of the amount, the standard of scholarship could be kept just...
...GEOLOGICAL CONFERENCE. "Geology of the Syenites of Cuttingsville, Vt." Mr. J. W. Eggleston. "Chemical Notes on the Cuttingsville Rocks and a Method for the Determination of Fluorine and Titanium." Mr. H. E. Merwin. Mineralogical Lecture Room...
...GEOLOGICAL CONFERENCE. "Geology of the Syenties of Cuttingsville, Vt." Mr. J. W. Eggleston. "Chemical Notes on the Cuttingsville Rocks and a Method for the Determination of Fluorine and Titanium." Mr. H. E. Merwin. Mineralogical Lecture Room...