Word: method
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...three ways in which electives are carried on, - one by lectures from the professor, another by lectures from the students themselves, and still another by setting lessons and having the students recite, to which is added now and then a lecture by the instructor. Which of these methods is the best I will not attempt to say. When the lectures are delivered by the instructor, the average students, in fact I may say all except a few of the most faithful, are apt to neglect the daily work, and simply to cram their knowledge just before the examinations...
...case for the card catalogue at the Library will, it is hoped, facilitate a speedy delivery of books, and we are glad to see that one alcove has been turned into a miniature reading-room. The recently introduced method of getting out books is cumbrous and unpleasant; but of course we poor undergraduates are not expected to see its merits, as, indeed, we do not, though its faults are patent to all. The increasing interest in the study of history in this College has laid bare another defect in our Library. Of what works we have duplicate sets (Bancroft...
...finances of the Boat Club, and unfortunate for the students, who are called upon to make up the amount which otherwise would come from the pockets either of graduates, or of friends, or of students who could feel that they were getting an immediate return from their outlay. The method of raising money by student entertainments possesses all the advantages of indirect taxes over direct, and we are loath to see this method given up, especially as there seems to be no reason for its discontinuance. If the Glee Club and Pierian Sodality would consent to let the proceeds...
...almost any work which treats of the art of disciplining the memory, it will be found that whatever method succeeds in presenting before the mind the desired fact in an interesting, lively manner is, on the whole, the most certain of successful operation. And so in history it is generally acknowledged that, after fixing firmly in the mind the main facts to be remembered, whatever serves to engage the attention or provoke the imagination changes what otherwise might be a dull chronicle, burdensome to the memory, into a pleasant reminiscence, almost personal in its character, which will never be forgotten...
...neither right nor necessary that this state of things should exist. Mathematics cannot be made an easy study; but its difficulty might be vastly diminished and its attractiveness greatly increased if the faults in the present method of teaching were remedied. To the honor of one instructor, it should be said that a reform has been introduced in some of the lower courses, - noticeably, in the course in Differential Calculus. Over sixty men are taking this course, and are actually enthusiastic over it. When before were Harvard students enthusiastic over Mathematics? If all the instructors would follow the example...