Word: methods
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...purposes. The cost of running pipes to the other buildings would not be large. The work of sinking an artesian well can be done either by the job or by the foot. In the first case the sinker makes his estimate and bores until he finds water. The second method would probably be the most economical, as the cost is about two dollars a foot for a six-inch bore, which would supply all needs of the yard. The depth probably would not exceed fifty feet at the most, as there is a well near Church street which strikes water...
...Sorosis was omitted when Anacreon's "Phusis" gave beauty to women, and with truly feminine ingenuity she had adopted another method outside the sphere of Nature to attract the masculine attention so dear to her sex. Instead of making the most of her gifts and making her defects as unnoticeable as possible, she subordinated the former to an exaggeration of the latter. Her husband had "struck oil" in Pennsylvania, and had then subsided into a submissive check-signer and reader of the daily papers, a mythical kind of power-behind-the-throne known as "Mrs. De Sorosis' husband...
...action of the gentleman, at Williams, in refusing the position of valedictorian, because he regarded it as an honor obtained from the marks he had received by a system that he did not approve, has called forth many articles on the method employed of distinguishing the different grades of scholarship attained by men at college. By some, the marking system is upheld, as the only means to prevent idleness and neglect, and as an unfailing incentive to "healthy, honest competition," as one contemporary has it; others trace from it all the prevalent evils that result from overwork and cramming, while...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD : Is it not time that somebody should enter a protest against the kind of literature that our college fortnightlies are offering us? I for one want to record my positive disagreement with the method and the theory on which their editors seem to proceed, and, unless I am entirely mistaken in the tone of college feeling in this matter at Harvard, I think I am not alone in my opinion. I want to say as for the Lampoon that in general I enjoy its articles and witticisms immensely; and this simply for the reason that they...
...regard to the new method of pulling the tug-of-war, a member of one of the teams says that it is more work for the men and less fun for the spectators...