Word: methods
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...matter room if the editors think it improper. The Advocate's position is that a contributed article is not necessarily the expression of the editorial opinion. This position may be tenable and is certainly more reasonable than the one taken by the Crimson. However, to prevent any misunderstanding, some method of distinguishing contributed articles should be adopted. The old custom of signing an initial or a nom de plume would be a great convenience, if again brought to life...
...particularly good play on the part of the winners, but on some particular error or succession of errors on the part of the losers. Base-ball is frequently as much a game of chance as of skill. Some change will have to be made before long in the method of play, and it will probably be inaugurated by the colleges as the leaders in amateur athletics. The first step toward such a change will be to dipitcher. The new rule adopted by the minish the undue importance of the National : League would have precisely the opposite effect. True, the practice...
...foot-ball troubles are concerned we can only say that not only Harvard but Princeton disapproved of Yale's method of play. Still, neither Harvard nor Princeton ever accused Yale of being a mere training-school for "muckers." We only claim that Yale plays a game of foot-ball which we consider adapted only to "muckers" (if the Spirit wants to use this word), and in so far only as Yale supports this style is she "muckerish." Still, at Rugby, England, an equally rough game is in vogue, yet no one characterizes Rugby men as muckers. That this style...
...whole plan is a very strong method of favoring "specialists." The man who takes a general course suffers, from the fact that he did not devote himself more to one subject. It is well enough to encourage men to pursue a special line of study, but to give a man the same rank for eighty-five per cent. in eighteen hours that another man gets for forty-two hours of general work is too much of an incentive...
...honors if he took six courses on the same subject. So that a man practically gets the same degree for eighteen hours work that another man gets for forty-two hours work. There is something wrong in this arrangement without a doubt, and we trust that in time some method will be devised to do away with the evil...