Word: methodically
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...another column will be found an article in relation to the proposed change in the method of instruction in Freshman German. If, as the writer states, there is a serious disagreement in the German department regarding the proper system to be pursued, it is to be regretted; but still we cannot ignore the fact that great advantage is gained by a Freshman section from instruction by a professor once a week. Still the supporters of the measure, in citing the precedent of a similar plan successfully adopted in Latin and Greek, seem to have called to their aid an example...
...committee elected by the tennis players from among themselves, this committee arbitrating in cases of dispute. This would, we think, be the fairest way for all concerned, and would prevent the unmannerly scramble to get on the ground first, which will surely result from the want of some systematic method of disposing of the courts...
...Mathematics, while Rhetoric is entirely neglected; but if that were made a prescribed study of the Freshman year, we could then enter upon our Sophomore year thoroughly prepared to write our themes with a greater degree of satisfaction to ourselves and to the instructors, while under the present method most of us have almost entirely forgotten the knowledge of English which we once possessed...
...gentlemen who advised the present method of correction must have given careful consideration to the matter before they came to any conclusion, and must have thought the present method the best which could be devised. It seems to us, however, that with such a change as we have attempted to explain, while the expense to the College would be increased, yet the benefit derived by the student from the writing of themes would be correspondingly greater, and would be well worth the extra outlay involved...
...mind quite as undesirable; but if, in talking to and of our teams, we should be willing to acknowledge their short comings when they exist, and not to give their existing good points more praise than they deserve, it seems to us we should be adopting the right method to put our athletics on a firm and lasting basis...