Word: methods
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Parker and H. P. Kidder of the Board of Overseers, and Mr. John L. Sibley, for many years the college librarian, President Eliot refers to the voluntary attendance at prayers and the plans adopted for religious guidance of the students, and says that the success of the new method during the first three months of the current year has surprised those even who advocated it the most strongly. The officers and students of the college, and a large part of the thoughtful public, have manifested great interest in the enterprise; because they see men of eminence belonging to four different...
...fallen from 7 44 100 to 5 19-100 per cent, and it is still falling. The corporation have avoided debt, maintained and improved their buildings out of income, adhered to the low valuation of their old stocks, reduced the valuation of unimproved lands, put in operation a method of sinking railroad bond premiums, and preserved a prudent distribution of the property among the various kinds of secure investments...
...system now is to collect a small body of men to train, and educate them carefully for any given team, to dismiss the worse one by one, and at last retain only the necessary number of players. The fault in this method is that many come to college without that education in any branch of athletics which for all the teams - except the class crews - is necessary as a guarantee that they are worth educating. How many who are indifferent players when young, as they develop their bodies, develop also a talent in some branch of athletics. Others who have...
Owing to to the arrangement with the publisher 500 copies must be guaranteed him before the end of the month so that instead of putting the book on sale the method of personal subscription must be resorted to and it is hoped that all members of the college who possibly can will offer their names when called on. This work of subscription has been put into the hands of a committee and subscriptions may be left with E. C. Pfiffer, 10 Stoughton hall, editors of the Harvard Advocate, Amee Bros., Chas. W. Sever, or Leavitt & Pierce...
...sets an example of the proper method of obtaining a large mass meeting by early previous posting...