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Short-hand taught-Positively shortest method. Terms low. Address,-T. B. Gregory, 20 Mellen...
...easily intelligible, and does not excite doubt nor the necessity of deeper enquiry. The teachers need only possess good receptive talents. Thus in France it is looked upon as a false step when a young man of promising talents takes a professorship in a faculty in the provinces. The method of instruction in France is well adapted to give pupils, of even moderate capacity, sufficient knowledge for the routine of their calling. They have no choice between different teachers, and they swear in verbamagistra; this gives a happy self-satisfaction and freedom from doubts. If the teacher has been well...
...method which Yale is trying this fall of having a class tournament in tennis to determine who shall represent the college at the coming intercollegiate match at Hartford is said to work very well. The immediate effect of the change has been to nearly double the number of entries, which now amount to fifty. The HERALD has already suggested the advisability of a trial of this method in one of Harvard's tournaments; our argument would seem to be strengthened by the result of Yale's experiment...
...voted, That the faculty see no satisfactory reason for selecting speakers except from such as are candidates for a degree, and that in making selections, as all the candidates cannot speak, in their opinion the most practicable method is according to the principles stated in their action of February 26, namely, that appointments be given according to the student's record of general scholarship, her literary ability and her conduct during her college course...
...plan were adopted of having a class tournament precede the championship contest. The victors in the class tournament might then be selected, either to compete finally in the championship tournament or the two contests might be kept entirely separate. Perhaps the present plan may be the fairer method of deciding the championship of the college, but a class championship contest would certainly do much to arouse interest and rivalry among the classes. If it does not seem best to adopt the plan in the fall championship tournament, we see no reason why the experiment could not be tried...