Word: method
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...used as an introduction to the study of Shakspere. We are pleased to find in it none of the absurdities of the "inductive" school of criticism, which makes what should be a literary work seem like a text-book on graphic algebra or spherical geometry. The method here is absolutely sane and sound, the style is lucidity itself, fact is everywhere kept clear from inference, and there is no gush. There is not a silly sentence in the book. What reader of Dowden or Fleay can say that...
Yesterday afternoon the first and second freshman crews began feathering under Mr. Watson's coaching. Mr. Watson also explained the correct method of holding the arms at the full reach...
...Index for 1894-95, which appears today, shows little material change from the method of arrangement of previous years. It makes a very convenient book of reference, giving, as it does, in addition to a general directory and a directory by dormitories, a complete list of all the organizations at Harvard. The clubs that appeared last year but do not appear this year are the Electrical Club, the Historical Club, and the Sparring Club. The new clubs that appear this year for the first time are the Press Association, Engineering Society, Disciple Club, Freshman Debating Club, a chapter...
Freshman Crew.Owing to the appearance on the freshman rowing squad of several football men, there are now some 25 candidates. The first crew has been using the slide for two weeks. The method of the stroke seems to be a long swing of the body accompanied with a most excellent drive with the legs. The candidates are all muscular and few weigh under one hundred and sixty pounds...
...many years there have been complaints in regard to the existing methods of distributing scholarships by the authorities of the college. This distribution of scholarships is a matter of extreme difficulty, and any hammer-and-tongs assault on the present method would be unjustified; yet there are certain considerations, perhaps more obvious to the undergraduate than to the Faculty, which we wish to press on their attention...