Word: methods
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...University published in a number of daily papers, the article has aggravated the feeling among the students that Harvard is most unjustly dealt with by those who have the power to inflict injury if they so desire. The writer of the article in question has adopted the usual method of a coward at heart. Running throughout his pages there is a half-concealed malignity towards our beloved institution that must be apparent not only to every Harvard student who is acquainted with the true state of things existing here, but also to reader who is ignorant of Harvard's methods...
...regularly at recitations. In the first place, at the present time the instructor is the judge as to whether or not a student comes to recitations regularly enough to warrant his remaining in the course, and if a warning proves insufficient, the student is dropped from the course. This method is as simple as it is effective. Cases will always arise when it is impossible for a student to be at a certain lecture, and if the compulsory rule were enforced, continual explanations would be necessary, wearisome both to the student and the instructor, The old doctrine that compulsion...
...Professor George P. Fisher, D. D. of Yale University. Paul Dudley. the founder of the course, was a Harvard graduate and became a Chief Justice of Massachus tts. According to his instructions the lecture was purely defensive. The theory has been advanced that episcopacy is the only lawful method of church government, and that there can be no true church with-out bishops. No man not ordained by a bishop has any warrant for his ministry. This idea is based on the supposed unbroken succeseion of bishops from the apostles, transmitted by laying on of hands. It is doubtful, however...
...religion as the same hath been practiced in New England from the first beginning of it, and so continued at this day.- Not that I would any ways invalidate Episcopal ordination as it is commonly called and practised in the Church of England: but I do esteem the method of ordination as practised in Scotland, at Geneva, and among the dissenters in England, and in the churches in this country, to be very safe, scriptural and valid: and that the great Head of the church, by his blessed spirit, hath owned, sanctified and blessed them accordingly, and will continue...
...religion as the same hath been practiced in New England from the first beginning of it, and so continued at this day.- Not that I would any ways invalidate Episcopal ordination as it is commonly called and practised in the Church of England: but I do esteem the method of ordination as practised in Scotland, at Geneva, and among the dissenters in England, and in the churches in this country, to be very safe, scriptural and valid: and that the great Head of the church, by his blessed spirit, hath owned, sanctified and blessed them accordingly, and will continue...