Word: methods
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Yale Courant speaks nobly about the race, but is not pleased with the Atlantic's article, which it calls wishy-washy. We agree with the Courant that there is a little hyperbole about the statement that to point out the faults of Yale's method of rowing is "simply to enumerate every one that can exist." In the article "To the Freshmen," the Courant informs them that they are members of the greatest of American institutions. Whew...
INSTRUCTOR IN LOGIC TO MR. H. By what method of reasoning do you infer that a bullet is hot after it strikes a target? - MR. H. By picking it up, sir. - Yale Record...
...many students become discouraged and disgusted to such a degree that few electives in Mathematics are ever chosen. The result is that students are not so well educated in these most desirable branches, at the end of the college term, as they would have been had a more judicious method of instruction been employed. We do not appreciate the wisdom of making the Freshman the hardest year. The standing of a student at the end of the Freshman year is no criterion of what he can or will do in subsequent years, and if the course complained of is intended...
...speaking for the Boylston Prizes is to take place in a little less than three weeks, those who intend to take part are beginning to be interested as to the method in which the two trials are to be conducted. We fully realize the difficulties in the way of a satisfactory arrangement, but it seems to us that something better could be devised for a preliminary trial than merely having the Boylston Professor select twenty of the speakers to take part in the final contest. When we consider the fondness of judges for making an award which shall astonish everybody...
...boats, and that the course should be buoyed by yawls anchored half a mile apart, each boat flying a red flag from a staff twenty feet high. Last year the buoys were so small as to be almost invisible to coxswains, and therefore valueless as guides. The first-mentioned method of buoying would distinctly mark the course, and make it impossible for one crew to get into its opponent's water, except by intent...