Word: method
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...school and at the university, and of providing for the comfortable support of able young men, rich or poor, for several years after they have left the university; unless, in the mean time, they should have come to the conclusion, from a comparison of the results of the English method with the results obtained by other nations, that there are means of promoting piety and learning more effectual than that of presenting money to the youthful mind as the most appropriate reward of scholarship...
...correspondent in the last Advocate takes exception to the articles in question because, as he says, the method used of exhorting us to remedy the matter seems to him unwise. We heartily agree with him that it would be very unwise to try to improve musical matters at Harvard by showing that it was "the thing" to sing at Yale or Amherst. Moreover, if he had taken the trouble to read carefully the article in the Crimson before attempting to criticise it, he would have found that no such method of exhortation was there attempted...
...elsewhere to deviate somewhat from the prescribed course for admission here. At the same time she has always shaped her course with special reference to the requirements of Harvard, and shows no intention of ceasing to do so. She was one of the first academies to change her method of instruction in Latin and Greek so as to fit students for the new method of examination; and thus far the change has proved satisfactory. While Exeter may not be a "special feeder" for Harvard, she certainly does not seem to consider the requirements for admission excessive or impracticable...
...proposed to avoid these objections, and yet furnish the papers to students by publishing little pamphlets, each of which will contain a set of papers upon one subject. Students can then buy only the papers they wish, and can have them in a much handier form than before. This method is followed in the English universities, and no doubt will be successful if adopted here...
...well-known fact that some electives are much more popular than others, and attract a much larger number of students; and we had always supposed that the instructors not only recognized this, but even took a just pride in it, considering a crowded section a tribute to their method of handling the subject. It was, therefore, with great surprise, to say the least, that we heard from a friend of an instructor in a deservedly popular elective who announced his intention of making the course as difficult as possible, and of giving a hard examination-paper "for the purpose...