Word: methods
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...prizes were awarded to the following-named gentlemen : To Mr. William H. White, Law School, a first prize for an essay on "The Effects of the Spoils System on National Legislation," and to the same gentleman another prize for an essay on "Conflict between the claims of locality and method of competitive examination suggested in the Pendleton Bill;" Mr. Marland C. Hobbs, class of '85, received the third prize for an essay on "The Effect of the Spoils System on National Legislation." Competitors were residents of Brookline and under twenty-five years...
...comparative ease with which the Harvard-Yale controversy was finally settled commends the method of having a personal conference and adopting and signing a set of written rules. The success of the method with Yale leads us to ask why the same plan should not be adopted with Columbia. Surely, in view of our experience with her last year, such a thing would not be out of place. In this way we should avoid a repetition of difficulties, the blame of which can be fastened satisfactorily upon no one. As a rule, we think that every athletic contest, especially...
...Harpers have just brought out "English Literature in the Eighteenth Century," by Thomas Sergeant Perry. This book is an attempt - the first made by a writer of English - to apply to the history and criticism of literature what has been termed the "scientific method" - the method that accepts as of universal applicability the laws of growth. It attempts to trace the source of the various impulses and reactions that mark English literature in the last century, and to show that they were only manifestations of a general development common to all European nations. Critics hitherto have been satisfied to point...
...satisfactorily accounted for. The exercises consist of a portion of the Episcopal service, a chant, lesson, hymn, etc., and last about twenty minutes. The faculty make a point of being particular in regard to chapel and seem to be growing more so as the elective system affords a method of avoiding attendance. "The majority of the students would be pleased, in my opinion," our correspondent writes, "if chapel was abolished...
...York Times discusses the negotiations for the Harvard-Yale race: "The method by which the annual Harvard-Yale boat-race is arranged is peculiarly clumsy and fraught with the utmost peril. About six months before the usual time of the race one of the colleges - say Yale, for example - proposes that a race shall be rowed, and thereupon each college confides the ensuing diplomatic correspondence to a committee. The Yale committee writes a formal letter offering to row under certain conditions, which will give the Yale crew every advantage. Thus, Yale will demand that if her crew arrives...