Word: method
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...method of administration of the new Freshman Dormitories is a matter upon which much thought and attention have been bestowed by the committee of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences charged with making recommendations upon this subject. At a recent meeting President Lowell and Assistant Dean Yeomans discussed this subject with undergraduate representatives of several schools which send boys to Harvard. The opinions of these undergraduates appeared to be favorable to the plans of the committee...
...present method of choosing the English parts representing the College at Commencement has been changed by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. According to the new scheme, six men, promising in respect of both personality and intellectual interests, are to be selected by the Committee on Commencement Parts from candidates proposed by the several departments in the College, or otherwise. After due consideration of their respective merits, based to some degree upon roughly outlined parts, two shall finally be selected by the aforesaid committee as Commencement speakers...
...high standard. We should like to know to what an extent this is due to the publicly prepared men, and to what extent to the new-plan men. It may be quite possible that we have at hand valuable information as to the better method of preparing men for college, full mechanical training or individualistic intelligent development; some light may be thrown on one or two queries propounded by President Lowell in this week's Alumni Bulletin. Taken with the fact that an astonishingly larger number of men were refused admission this year--the culmination of a steady increase since...
Realizing that the drop-kick will probably be of much need to the Harvard team in the coming games, the coaching staff is developing this method of scoring for more efficient and more frequent use. Late yesterday afternoon a team composed of University players and substitutes, lined up against the seconds for twenty minutes, in order to allow Brickley and Logan to test their drop-kicks. Brickley booted the ball from the 35-yard line straight over the bar five times out of seven attempts. Logan's attempts were not so successful, as he scored only one out of five...
...very well the values obtained in this laboratory in other ways, and are decidedly reassuring with regard to the accuracy of all the processes concerned, both in the new and the older work, The value of such confirmatory experiments is great in work of this sort, since a single method may be always open to the suspicion that a small constant source of error may have been inadvertantly overlooked...