Word: methods
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...attention has been called by some members of '85 to the peculiarly poor method employed in teaching Freshman German. Two recitations of the week are conducted by one instructor, and the third is held by another...
...regard to a mid-year examination in that elective, as posted. There has never been any examination in this course, and we learn from Prof. Hill that in this instance it is not probable that the rule will be changed. No ingenuity has yet been able to invent a method of examination for a debating course, and the professor invites suggestions in regard to the matter...
...These mains will be of wrought iron covered with asbestos. Each length will then be put into a pump log, but separated from it by strips of wood, thus forming a layer of non-conducting air. This will render it unnecessary to lay the pipes below the frost. The method of piping the different rooms has not as yet been decided upon, although several plans are under discussion. Three plans are proposed by the committee. The first would require an expenditure of $26,000, and would lay main pipes to every building upon the campus, including the various residences...
...should like to see some method employed for beating the cars of the Union Railroad Company in the winter time. In this age, when one's comfort is taken into so much consideration, it seems strange that a person living in Cambridge must spend the thirty-five minutes taken up by the passage to Boston, in a car in which the temperature seems lower, if possible, than that of the outside...
...expression; his gestures are manly and in good taste, and his voice is unsurpassed. He shows the evil effects of his Western tour in his tendency to mistake rant for passion, in his desire, to use theatrical parlance, to catch the gallery. Besides this, he wholly lacks the studied method of the Booth school, to which he is generally regarded as belonging. During the week he will appear in "Richard III.," "Macbeth," and "Fool's Revenge...