Word: method
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...back, when athletics had run mad. Things have changed, however, and the old influences have disappeared. Many practices once thought legitimate have been given up as leading to bad sport, and college boys have begun to acquire consciences both about the time taken from regular work, and about the method of winning games. The deception and brutality which once seemed an inevitable accompaniment of the games have given place to reasonably fair dealings, especially among the older universities. The games promise to become lessons in honorable conduct as well as in the development and care of the body. Not that...
Professor Trowbridge has recently discovered a method by which he has obtained a more intense source of heat than has ever been reached before. By means of it he will be able to study metals under new conditions of temperature. At present he is engaged in experimenting with gases, in the hope of obtaining spectra similar to those exhibited by the stars. With the new apparatus he has also produced x-rays of remarkable intensity and penetrating power...
President Hadley has decided to establish a "University Council" at Yale to assist in the administration of the university. Heretofore the method of managing the various departments has been through a general faculty meeting held once a week, at which all matters pertaining to the department interested were discussed. As a meeting of all the faculty members of the university at once, however, was out of the question, the president was forced to meet each faculty in turn, and discuss the affairs relating to its department. This meant a great waste of time on the president's part, and tended...
...method of awarding the Bowdoin Essay Prizes will be followed this year and in 1901-1902. A distinction will be made in favor of undergraduate work, for which there will be a first prize of $250 and a second prize of $200. For the best essay by a member of the Graduate School there will be a prize of $300. In judging the essays, both the literary quality and the substance will be considered...
...medicine has accumulated in past years to an extent that makes it impossible for a single professor to master all completely. The field of knowledge in any one special branch is large enough to entirely engross the whole study of one man. To conform to this increase, a method of instilling into the student a scientific power of observation in place of text-book knowledge will be introduced. The lectures will explain the laboratory work instead of making the laboratory work instead of making the laboratory work explain the lectures, as heretofore. Instead of running four full courses through...