Word: methods
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...university like ours, changes and innovations of one kind or another are constantly being demanded. The most pressing need now is some method of lighting the library during the evening. The importance of this step has been shown by the numerous pleas for electric lights in the library in the different college papers. It is seldom that in any question concerning the internal affairs of the college the sentiment of the undergraduates and instructors is unanimous, but the benefits to be derived from lighting the library are so manifest as to make all those who are in the habit...
...Study of Rossetti's Verse," is a piece of work which badly needs revision. What is said of Rossetti is undoubtedly based on extended reading and upon an adequate appreciation of the poet's nature, but the article itself is remarkable for nothing except its lack of clearness and method and its exhibition of some of the most rudimentary of historical blunders...
...advanced standard required in the recent catalogues of New England colleges in the requirements in English literature, which are now uniform in them all. The commission is now considering the subject of modern languages, and a higher proficiency in those branches also will probably be required. This method of elevating and rendering uniform the standard of college admissions is likely to be introduced in all the States of the Union. It would not only remove the embarrassment which many of our smaller colleges feel in receiving students inadequately prepared, and almost necessarily relaxing the course to meet this deficiency...
...would seem as if the time had certainly come when some change should be made in the method of choosing umpires for the annual football contests. It is time that men should be chosen who have no personal interest in the success of either contesting team or of any third team in the Assassin, or else men of sufficient age and experience to be able to divorce what small interest they might have from their action. To come directly to the point, it is time the colleges began to have professional umpires. To this proposal the objection has been raised...
...persons desirous of a knowledge of Hebrew and the Semitic languages, who cannot avail themselves of opportunities for oral instruction. Its membership is to include persons of both sexes. The work in the school is carried on at home by a regular correspondence with a careful instructor, and the method, which is purely inductive, will depend for success upon the studious purpose of the pupil. An elementary course is also offered in Aramaic. Arabic and Assyrian...