Word: method
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...severely the "lifeless action and more lifeless diction" of the speakers as they were pleased to express it, this criticism arose from a mistaken idea of the true art of elocution, gained, perhaps, from a too great familiarity with the old style back country college oration. Mr. Jones's method in teaching is now beginning to bear up its fruits. His intention to inculcate naturalness both in voice and gesture, has led him to introduce reforms into the modes of declamation which have hitherto shown themselves to be productive of the highest success. This evening will again see those methods...
...chief points of the Yale method of distribution are these. Whenever a room is assigned to a student, he may retain it till the end of his course, or may give it up at the end of any academic year and draw for a choice again. An allotment of vacant rooms takes place in June,- the classes drawing for choice in order of seniority. The drawing is for choice of room, and not directly for the room itself. No one can dispose of his choice, or of his room. If any one is dissatisfied with his choice, he can drop...
Several of the students who were present as delegates objected to the omission of stated times of meetings and a prescribed method of calling them. After considerable debate the following vote was passed unanimously by the representatives of the faculty who were serving on the committee. The time and place of meeting, and the method of calling the meeting are left by the faculty to be determined by the conference itself...
...Year after year Harvard crews have been taught by words and by experience to believe that their regular stroke is a good one. In 1883 when Yale, pulling a very rapid stroke, was left twenty lengths or more behind, all critics joined in praising the Harvard method. Competent amateurs, it will now be observed, attribute the success of '87 on Friday to the mistake made by '85 in attempting to pull a stroke of forty-four to the minute during the first mile of the race. It is as true a saying as it is trite, that it is wise...
...chance in the Bursar's lottery next Friday, in order merely to serve a friend. "Transfers" of rooms are not permitted now, but only "exchanges." The obvious intention of this change is to place a check upon the practice of drawing a room through one's friends. The only method now left for obtaining a room by this means is to have the friend throw up his room, and to engage it oneself as soon as it is offered to be let. In attempting this, however, there is considerable danger of being anticipated by a third party. Another change...