Word: methods
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...their conduct, in the newspapers. When they carried out practically what they had been reading in their daily journals [Rochester has no daily, so that must be aimed directly at Harvard], they doubtless had the expectation that it would be taken as a very sensible and entirely proper method of expressing their critical opinion of the aesthetic side of art." Identifying Mr. Wilde and the "aesthetic side of art" is good. This whole discussion is, we fear, becoming somewhat tiresome; but then we must ask the American in what single instance college boys were incited by their daily journals...
...believe, for this reason stated by the Beloit professor. "If young men are kept in preparatory training-schools, and are not allowed to assume the responsibilities of manhood till the blood is chilled and the ambition dampened, the 'thoroughness' of preparation defeats its own ends." And the method of Yale is but that of a higher preparatory school of this sort...
...blue-books to him. Although this is done to save the professor's eyes, at the same time the practice combines many very material advantages. For although almost every one is dissatisfied with the result accomplished on an examination paper, or with the mark returned, there is usually no method of finding out in what one was right or wrong. This is especially true of those more indefinite subjects in which mental reasoning, and not the mere effort of memory, enters largely into the consideration of work done. But when a man reads his book over to his professor...
...drawings that are done by the hand of an artist. Mr. Frank Rosewater, the author, treats the subject of protection through a patchwork of stories that are written in a most playful and easy style, and are full of keen satire. He opens up an entirely new and original method of attack on free trade intended to overwhelm that doctrine; in fact, his work is a new analysis of the question that renders the decision conclusive in favor of protection. The work is destined to exert a large influence on the commerce and politics of the future, and will take...
...reforms suggested and the substitutes proposed for the method of formal examinations as a test of progress and a measure of ability, have not as yet much commended themselves to college governors. In the English Literature classes of Prof. Tyler at the University of Michigan, several years since, an alternative was offered his students by which those who wished could escape the terrors of examination by a simple but effective remedy. Those men who were willing to do a certain prescribed amount of collateral reading were excused attendance at the ordeal which the rest had to endure. Indeed, we believe...