Word: methods
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Always articulate about himself, Wagner describes in one letter his method of composition: "Before starting to write a verse, or even to outline a scene, I must first feel intoxicated by the musical aroma of my subject, all the tones, all the characteristic motives are in my head, so that when the verses are finished and the scenes ordered, the opera proper is also finished for me and the musical treatment in detail is rather a calm and considered afterwork which the moment of real creation has preceded...
This was the first diploma awarded by the man who had sold the Boston Medical Society on the idea of anatomical dissection as a practical teaching method. Warren became the first professor of the Harvard Medical School the following year...
...very essence of the teaching method in the Medical School is clinical diagnosis. The student spends his first-year-and-a-half on normal required courses at the School. But the last two-and-a-half years he puts more and more of his time into working in hospitals in the clinical facilities at the School's disposal...
Although this is certainly not an unusual method of medical instruction, Harvard Medical students have an almost unrivalled opportunity to secure a well-organized clinical experience and knowledge of disease. A large number of cases in four major hospitals are available for student work--Massachusetts General, Boston City, Peter Bent Brigham, and Beth Israel. In addition, cases are used for teaching in nine specialist hospitals...
...unprecedented diversity of method has appeared in this parietal campaign. House Committee chairman put in a request for midnight deadlines for women guests on their football weekends. A petition calling for midnight permission every Saturday night throughout the year was circulated, and attracted over 2,000 signatures. One House Committee proposed a midnight deadline for groups of three or more couples. And a Student Council committee meeting met with a delegation of Housemaster to discuss the possibility of a change...