Word: methodically
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...criticise a kind of speaking which is frequently heard at the debates. It is evident that many men carefully prepare their five-minutes speeches, commit them to memory, and then declaim them. To our mind a debating society is not the place for declamation; but aside from that, the method is very ineffective, and ridicule oftener than approbation is manifested by the listeners. An assembly usually greatly prefers to hear a speaker who hesitates and stumbles in his remarks, provided they are extemporaneous, than one who fires off at short range a carefully prepared and committed speech, though...
...that they are not in any way responsible for the exaggerated headings that appear over their communications. The managements of the papers are alone guilty of the undue prominence and misrepresentation which these headings convey. This trick of newspapers is growing with certain Boston dailies. In fact this method of appealing to the lower classes, to those who hunger for excitement and glory in high colored descriptions, has outgrown respectable limits. Public decency calls for a reform. The prosperity of many papers that live by telling the truth in a truthful and respectable manner, shows that there are classes that...
...felt at the announcement that the members of History 13 and 18, who do not do special work in those courses, can attain a maximum mark of only 75 per cent. The announcement in the elective pamphlet certainly would not lead any one to suppose that such a method was to be adopted. The special work in the courses is more nearly equivalent to a half course than a quarter course, while the routine work is equal in amount to that of any full course in college...
...desirability of increasing the influence of a college in preparatory schools was urged by President Adams. His method of gaining this strength was stated as in the classics, by educating teachers. The true method of making a college popular is in showing to the active world the fruits of a college education. The college that can point to a host of illustrious alumni will not want for students, even if the preparatory schools are filled with teachers who have graduated from a rival college...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - If the "Member of English 2" who maintains that there is only one correct method of spelling Shakespear's name, will consult the Saturday Review for Oct. 21, he will find that, in a criticism of a Shakespeare Concordance by Mr. Davenport Adams, that journal, which is certainly an authority, not only spells the name "Shakspeare," but further remarks: "Mr. Adams gives a practical illustration of the license now given to cultivated persons to spell Shakspeare in whatever way they like, by adopting one style on the title page and another on the text." From this...