Word: methods
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...wish," he remarked, "that you should follow the schoolboy method. I shall not teach you anything, nor do I expect you to learn anything. I, too, am a man and a snob. Do you manage to make out the connection...
...year honor course in modern languages. Scandinavian, unknown at Harvard, is included in the list; and, as far as we can judge without fuller information, the course seems to us a very complete and judicious one. That some change must soon be made in our own method is evident, and the example of Columbia may well be cited as a move in the right direction. A course covering six years will certainly be an inducement to those interested in the study of modern languages; and if Harvard takes no forward step in the matter, it is easy to see what...
...latest method of making an oyster stew is to drive a couple of small oysters with rubber boots on through a pan of diluted milk. One of the boarding-houses in town has taken out a patent. The boys say that the stew is good and don't taste badly of the rubber...
...suggestion that heliotypes be substituted for the usual class photographs is at least worth considering. How far practicable it is to abandon photographs we do not know. It would certainly be a less bulky and less expensive method of obtaining views of buildings and the various groups. We commend the plan to the attention of the Senior class...
Yung looked about him for some method of escape. As his eyes travelled over the bones and horns, with which, instead of the customary clubs and stone darts, the walls were covered, he spied in a corner several skins of wild animals, which were hung from the roof. Toward them, accordingly, he retreated, while he stammered, to mask his movement, "I don't know...