Word: method
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...speaking thus, we hope to be in no way misunderstood. Such a method is not advocated for permanent adoption. our position is this: that, under present circumstances, fair treatment of all the members of the student body calls for such arrangements as will accommodate a large number at Memorial during the coming year, and as will make the accommodations not glaringly unequal; but that the present necessity overcome by the prompt action of the corporation, an immediate return should be made to club tables, unalloyed, throughout the hall. If emphasis was to be laid on either of these opinions...
...cooperation the most promising method of advancing the welfare of workingmen...
...only partially carried out. Owing to the manner in which affairs turned then, there are two societies today, neither of which acknowledges the other as superior and on whose respective merit it would not be expected that any disinterested persons would be willing to pass judgment. If some method for coalescing all the good speakers can be found, it would assuredly be well; we simply point out that the method sugested is inadequate...
Professor Norton well characterized Howells at an authors' meeting which was held in Boston some seven years ago when he said "And as I came up I met Lemuel Barker on the stairs." In Howells we see one of the few representatives of what is called the new method, who have made themselves famous among English speaking people. In spite of all that is said about the prejudice and obstinacy of our English brothers, it is from the American people that Howells has received the severest opposition in his efforts to carry out this new method. It was in Howells...
...forced his theory even so far as to claim that the new method was the only right method of writing. As a novelist he was an artist, but in criticism he was narrow-minded and bigotted. He wrote too much, too many pages of mere detailed description. In this way he has fallen into the trap of Psychology, making his characters tell what they think instead of trusting to their individuality to demonstrate their thoughts. He might well have relied on this feature of his characters, for no one knew better than he how to make mere paper...