Word: method
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...marking system. It is vastly more important that men should acquire much useful knowledge than that they should get high marks. If nothing more than an improvement of the marking system be desired, the best plan would be to abolish all examinations and let the students mark themselves. The method, perhaps, sounds revolutionary and visionary; but it can easily be shown to be the best and simplest plan, and one which would prove perfectly feasible. The great trouble with it is that it offers no incentive to study, and in that direction would not be superior to the present state...
...Amherst faculty has decided to adopt the English method of pronunciation of Latin...
...hoped that the Conference Committee will soon be able to effect some arrangement whereby the present system of examination will be modified. Under the present regime, there seems to be and possibly there can be, no uniformity of method in preparing examination papers. Some instructors give short papers with few questions and expect to have each question pretty thoroughly discussed. Other instructors give long papers with numerous questions. The answers to such questions must necessarily be brief; owing to their brevity they are liable to be faulty, even with the most careful student, and it is not likely that they...
This year attention has been drawn to a change in our curriculum. Two new courses, Political Economy X and History XX, have been established, wholly or in large part as experiments, which are important because they introduce into undergraduate work an entirely different method of study from that hitherto pursued. These courses are open only to graduates and to 'undergraduates of high rank or special promise,' and are intended to afford an opportunity for the special investigation of topics under the guidance of an instructor...
...publish in another column a reply to a previous communication on the present method of study in English VIII. About the same time last year we published a similar communication concerning the parallel course of the one in question, English VIII. But the complaint in the first case was that a too microscopic study of a writer's work was made, while the study of his life was wholly neglected. To criticise the method of study at present pursued by Professor Hill would give rise to a host of suggestions as to the correct way in which a course...