Word: methods
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that "it should be the faculty's endeavor, so far as possible, to give to the athletes of their college all the advantages that their opponents possess, and to let them feel that, as a body, it has a lively interest in their successes; and if anything in the method of conducting the sport seems undesirable, let it appeal to the athletic men-as man to man-to have it remedied." That is the true solution; and, as Mr. Wendell says, nothing "can ever be gained by making an intelligent man conform to rules with which he does not agree...
...idea being to make a language containing as few words as possible, entirely regular in its construction, and using the best words to be found in the four or five languages in common use. The language has no artificial genders, only one conjugation, and no irregular words. The method of derivation is always the same, the adjective, verb and adverb being regularly formed from the substantive, invariably having the same termination, so it is necessary to learn only the nouns of the language. Volapuk has spread with great rapidity. Schleyer's publications date only from 1879, yet now his pupils...
...good number of men heard Mr. Lane speak last evening in Sever 11 on the method of using the catalogue in the college library. After a few introductory remarks on the importance of the library in regard to the other departments of the college, the lecturer directed all his attention to the card catalogue and the manner of using it. The card catalogue is divided into two parts-an author catalogue and a subject catalogue. In the author catalogue, each book is entered under its author's name in alphabetical order, his collective works, and then his single works...
...those young men and should have been very glad if the author had explained what was meant by the "scientific method" in that connection. He states that the human mind has but one way of learning anything, and that the method which he advocates is the only method in philosophy which can yield a ground of settled convictions. This method would modernize philosophy, he believes. Now, if we young men are taught anything, it is that we should seek as many independent points of view as possible. It is true that one of the ablest philosophers in Boston recently stated...
...believe in the scientific method as ordinarily defined: Exact observation, careful experiment, rational hypothesis and verification. I took pains to read Dr. Abbott's pamphlet on "Scientific Philosophy" to ascertain what he means by the method which he advocates; and I find that he is especially desirous that philosophy shall adopt the realistic hypothesis, and believe in the objectivity of relations. In his article in the Monthly he implies that any sort of idealistic philosophy is incompatible with the recognition of objective relations. Now I have no doubt that all of the young men of Harvard whom the author addressed...