Word: methods
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have suggested before this that hour examinations, as now carried on, are one of the greatest hindrances to regularity of work on account of their being given utterly without method and usually in a bunch at the end of the term. We hope that under the new regulations some attention will be paid to method, and avoidance of the crowding of work and its attendant worry and strain. The best recommendations of the Overseers have been adopted; those that have in view better and more regular work. Conscientious, hard-working men they will not affect to any degree, but they...
...real estate, marriage, partnership and legal decisions. Such information makes it possible for us to have a very clear view of the social life of the times. This was just the period of the Jewish exile. The tablets also throw light on contemporary political history and on the method of reckoning time...
...regretted that already a so early a period a few words of severe criticism on the recently formed Harvard Camera Club are deemed necessary. The method adopted in forming this club went against all precedent: in former cases when a club of such a character was to be formed, a public meeting was called so that all interested could join...
...method adopted by the Camera Club is to say the east unjust, and cannot be criticized too severely. A few men influenced by a communication which appeared in the CRIMSON, went to work and got about twenty friends to join them in forming a club. Now this would have been all right, had these twenty-five men intended to form a private club, for themselves and friends; but by applying for the use of a room in Sever Hall as a dark room, they have clearly shown that they do not regard their club as a private club...
...than read a few proper names in the inscriptions. Colonel (now Sir) Henry Rawlinson, a young English officer, while stationed in Persia in 1835, was attracted to the study of the inscriptions. He states that his work was altogether independent of Grotefend and other European scholars. He used a method similar to that of Grotefend and reached results much more advanced...