Word: methodically
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...College is still burdened by the marking system, and is likely to be until the whole system of American instruction is reformed, and the university is no longer compelled to perform part of the functions of the preparatory schools; but much required work has been abolished, and the new method of examining candidates or admission is an important step in the right direction. The new system of conferring degrees, though somewhat elaborate, tends to encourage sound scholarship. Many valuable additions have been made to the elective courses; the extension of the graduate courses is a broadening move; and the establishment...
...Which do you think the better method in cases of obstinate resistance, the Proudly-superior, or the Humbly-pleading...
...disputed by any student, that for rooms in the College buildings we pay decidedly more than a business value. I cannot believe that A. really thinks that "the only object of the College in having dormitories is to keep down room-rents in Cambridge." If it is, the method of securing that beneficent end is decidedly queer. I can hardly believe, either, that a subscription of even $20,000 by the present Senior Class would have the effect of lowering room-rents. At any rate, I have not faith enough that this would be the result to be willing...
PRESIDENT PORTER of Yale, in his work on American Colleges, discusses at some length the "system of elective studies as now carried out at Harvard," and compares this system and its results to the old method of prescribed studies throughout the four years' course at Yale. It is hardly necessary to say that President Porter is strongly opposed to the elective system, and gives many strong arguments in favor of the old-timed course of four years of prescribed work in Mathematics, Classics, and Philosophy...
...needs we have long felt to be unsupplied. It has been said that the beams, from which it was supposed the apparatus was to be hung, are too high. The effect of the interior would have been marred by placing the beams any lower, while by the present method a great advantage is gained. An iron framework is fastened to the timbers, on which are running beams and eyes that can be placed at any desired point...