Word: method
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Methods of instruction are far from being the same in schools of this country and the success or the failure of a student in passing an admission examination is due greatly to the way in which he is taught. It is difficult to decide upon any one system of instruction; students are perpetually being experimented on to find the best, and some teachers, partly by their personality, will succeed where others will fail. Still the method of instruction in some of our schools is woefully poor and it can be improved, though with difficulty fixed, for each year will bring...
...college teachers of each principal subject which enters into the programmes of secondary schools in the United States, and into the requirements for admission to college - as for example of Latin, of Geometry, or of American History - each conference to consider the proper limits of its subject, the best method of instruction, the most desirable allotment of time for the subject, and the best methods of testing pupils' attainments therein; and each conference to represent fairly the different parts of the country...
...Yales method of tackling on a fair catch.Yale now tried a turtle-back wedge, the play that was afterwards to do her so much good, but could not gain, and L. Bliss next tried to get by Newell and Hallowell, but somehow or other the interference did not work, and he made no gain. Butterworth now tried to kick, but in spite of his failure Yale gained 5 yards on the decision of Mr. Coffin that there was a Harvard man off side...
...reveals himself to us in his revelations by a method of beginnings; beginnings used in the sense of the flowing stream, with ever fresh eddies and turns, ever starting some new action, and yet itself one continuous endless whole. Observe that this idea of repeated fresh starts does not in any way destroy the continuity of nature. Any study of her processes is but the making of new discoveries, and then in their light and the light of what has gone before, making fresh beginnings in the steady onward progress. No where does there come a break...
...Popular elections would improve state and local governments: - (a) Local elections are influenced by national issues, as shown by. - (1) Lincoln - Douglas campaign: - (2) Philadelphia ring: Bryce, II. 367 - 384. (b) The present method facilitates bribery; e. g. California, Nevada, Colorado...