Word: methods
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...second Junior Forensic will be due November 24. Subjects : 1. Ought the studies of the freshman year to be elective? 2. Was it good policy on the part of James I. to resist the demands of the Puritans? 3. In the study of literature, is it the better method to read a great amount, or to read a few authors with thoroughness? 4. Should the right of suffrage be limited by any qualifications or conditions...
...Brown and Rice of Williams. The leading topic brought up in this meeting was "Philosophy;" next fall the subject will be "Modern History." The chief interest in the session centred on the treatise prepared and delivered by the aged and honored philosopher, Mark Hopkins, of Williams, entitled, "The Best Method of Teaching Philosophy...
...method of instruction in Greek at Johns Hopkins University is thus commented on in a late number of the N. Y. Post: "The rooms are of a good size, well lighted and handsomely furnished. The cocoa matting of the average college class room is replaced by Brussels carpets; and cane-bottomed chairs are substituted for hard wooden seats. All the works in the university on philology are collected together in this one building. The student then has everything at his elbow. In the seminary library there are one thousand volumes, and in Professor Gildersleeve's study at least two thousand...
...spectators who witnessed the foot-ball match with the McGill College team last Monday were especially interested in their novel style of game. Their method of starting a scrimmage from a ball held down seemed on the whole rather a failure in our game. This is the regular method employed by elevens playing under the English rules and when both sides enter into these mauls the struggle is often quite exciting. But as our team is accustomed to play an open formation game they could quickly transfer the rushing across the field; a performance which made it rather embarrassing...
...large equatorial telescope has been kept at work, and the observations of the eclipses of Jupiter's satellites have been continued as in previous years. A number of planetary nebulae have been discovered by the method of sweeping the heavens, which originated in our observatory...