Word: methods
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...revival of the old game of Hockey has taken place during the past winter in England, and it has regained considerable of its former popularity. Hockey clubs are being organized throughout the country. The rules have undergone a complete revision, and several changes in the method of play have been adopted, with a view of increasing the science of the game and rendering the players less liable to injury. The game as played under these rules bears a strong resemblance to football. There are eleven men on each side, and the team is organized very much the same...
...bounty should be granted because: (a) a bounty would make good to the domestic producer any losses occasioned by a reduction of tariff.- Mr. White, in Congressional Record, July 9, 1888, p. 6019; (b) the payment of a bounty would be a just and satisfactory method of reducing the surplus; (c) in this case a bounty would be better than a duty.- John Sherman in Congressional Record, Jan. 18, 1889, p. 931; Hamilton's Works, Vol. III., p. 246; (d) The beet-sugar industries of other countries have been built up by the bounty system.- Encyclopedia Brit., Vol. XXII...
Some of the professors here at Harvard have long been interested in this subject, and last January a meeting was held to consider the expediency of adopting some method of systematic investigation of the dialects of the spoken English of the United States and Canada. So much enthusiasm was shown that a committee was appointed to prepare a plan of permanent organization. About a month ago this committee issued a circular calling a meeting on March 13 of those interested in the organization of a society...
...Dodge, '91, second on the affirmative, said that prohibition is the only right method, as drinking tends to crime; therefore, intemperance must dealt with in the same manner as crime, by prohibition, not by license. Prohibition will prohibit, but it will take time, as is always the case with great reforms. High license will merely connive at the evil, prohibition will stifle...
...will be given the entire charge of all the buildings, and will have direct power to hire and supervise the assistant janitors and goodies. This will require the present office of janitor for each building to be dispensed with, and will be a much simpler and more direct method of government than the present...