Word: methodically
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...management of the University Crew has started out in an admirable manner to collect subscriptions. The old method, which was a bore to everyone, of apportioning each building to some one or two men is not being carried out; but instead, a great number of men have been chosen, each of whom is to see a small group of his friends. This way of getting money ought to succeed better than the ordinary way. Men have naturally become tired of having visitors armed with subscription papers appear at all manner of times at their rooms...
...Historical Method in the Natural Sciences: Culmination in Darwin and Spencer...
...growth of the modern historical movement can be best suggested by the following incomplete list of abbreviated titles of "epochmaking" books, pioneer in very various departments of research. Such works mark the increasingly extended application of the historical method, with its accompanying idea of Evolution. to more and more regions of knowledge. as well as the growth of this Idea itself. Few of these books are technically considered. philosophical treatises. Out of the whole mass of such, and their successors in each department, the Philosophy of Evolution has grown. Dates of first editions alone are meant. The books are chosen...
...method of counting by points instead of goals, touch-downs, etc., was introduced in 1883, the only difference between it and the present in de of counting being that a touch down counted but two points. In 1879 Yale defeated Harvard by one goal kicked by Thompson, a Yale half-back, from the centre of the field. This was the last time a team of fifteen men was played. They were distributed as follows: 7 forwards, 5 half-backs and 3 backs...
...lecture concluded with a larger development of the comparison between Hegel and Schopenhauer and a summarized estimate of pessimism and the method to bear...