Word: methods
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...blowing at the time and the water was in very bad condition for rowing. The referee's boat went from the West Boston bridge to the Union boat-house, where it took in the referee, Wm. S. Eaton, Jr. It then proceeded directly to the starting line. A new method of starting the the crews was adopted for the first time this year. A rope was stretched from the bank near the Mill-dam road to a point about the middle of the bridge. There were placed at equal distances along this rope boats, each kept in place...
...different thing to read before a set of critical judges and before an audience who perhaps are prepossessed in favor of the speaker. Many whom the cold eyes of the judges would disconcert would be roused to their best efforts by an audience of fellow students. Would not this method be more beneficial than the present...
...pleasant to see that the spirit of fierce rivalry that once prevailed among many of the colleges of this country is fast dying out, and is giving way to a more just spirit of courtesy and friendly emulation. The obliteration of all differences of method is an end not at all to be desired, but the establishment of a firmer basis of agreement among all rival colleges cannot but result in good. There are one or two outcomes of the ordinary growth and experience of college faculties towards which all are tending; and one of these is the elective system...
...then chief justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, has continued to increase in the number of students and professors until today it is one of the chief departments of the university and second to no law school in the country in point of excellence in instruction and method. To Nathan Dane, an early resident of Massachusetts. is due the credit of aiding in the erection of the first building for the study of law at Harvard. In October, 1831, he advanced the sum of five thousand dollars toward the erection of a "Law College," and offered a loan...
...service, brought about this year, and the greater interest and respect aroused thereby, have also caused the removal of all grounds for objection to the system on theoretical grounds that had been previously urged. We do not believe this to be the case. The improvements in the method of conducting, and the changes in the hour for holding, the service have indeed been complete, and most grateful to the college at large. But that these changes recommend the principle of compulsory attendance to the students a whit more, as worthy of support and continuance, is more than doubtful...