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...voted to instruct the chairman to appoint a committee of three to conduct a correspondence with the more prominent colleges in regard to the methods of marking pursued. The information so obtained will be used as a basis for devising an improved method for Harvard. Messrs. Merriam, Coolidge and Garrison, were appointed on this committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conference Committee. | 10/30/1885 | See Source »

...filled by Prof. Theodore D. Woolsey, who resigned two years ago, and has now returned to the law school's corps of instructors. Prof. E. J. Phelps's appointment as Minister to England has left a vacancy which will probably be filled by Prof. Simeon E. Baldwin, who will instruct the seniors in constitutional and international law. Mr. Arthur E. Hadley continues his lectures on railroads, notwithstanding his appointment to the head of the State Bureau of Labor Statistics. Prof. Eugene L. Richards is seriously ill in the Adirondacks, and it is not probable that he can return...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Note and Comment. | 10/22/1885 | See Source »

...which he is required to prepare a short essay. A number of these essays are read the next day in the class, and then the professor calls on any member to criticise the writer's statements. He himself following the method of Socrates, seeks rather to educate than to instruct his students. The system is reported to arouse great enthusiasm in the students, and to produce such a development and cultivation of literary taste as are not attained by the usual methods

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Note and Comment. | 2/9/1885 | See Source »

...inform me in regard to the following questions? Was the foot ball convention held immediately after the Yale-Princeton game an informal one? If so, have the students a right to instruct their delegates to the formal convention, at which the championship will be decided...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communications. | 12/18/1884 | See Source »

...allowed to play games with other colleges, some action must be taken before the foot ball convention. The association should hold a meeting at once and instruct its delegates as to the nature of the changes which Harvard should attempt to pass in the convention, and then, perhaps, we shall be able to convince our faculty of the safety and propriety of a remodeled game of foot ball. We might at least make the attempt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/6/1884 | See Source »

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