Word: methods
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...lecture will be given in Sanders Theatre on Friday evening of this week, at 7.30 o'clock, by Charles Waldstein, M. A., rerder In Classical Archaeology and director of the Fitzwilliam Museum at King's College, Cambridge, England. The subject of this lecture will be "The Scientific Method of Research in Greek Archaeology. This announcement was unavoidably omitted from the official calendar for this week...
...very great importance. The restrictions laid down for the direction of the student are few and the suggestions for his guidance still fewer. He is limited in making his choice to "those studies which his previous training qualifies him to pursue," but it does not appear that any systematic method is employed to ascertain the qualification. It seems to remain largely in the discretion of the teachers. There are certain courses that can be taken only with the consent of the instructor, and certain courses which can be taken only after others have been pursued that are preparatory for them...
...form opinions in which they feel confident, and advice directed by the best intentions is not always sound. Under so liberal a system of elective studies as that which has been adopted at Harvard one of the greatest needs must be the development and perfection of some systematic method of guiding and helping the students in their choice of studies in accordance with sound principles. The object, no doubt, should be to reach the choice in each case that the student himself would make, supposing him to be endowed with the knowledge and judgment of his own case which...
...radical changes which have lately been made in the rules and regulations of the University, compared with the "revised" rules of a hundred and fifty years ago bring old Harvard into much sharper contrast with the college of to day than perhaps any other method of comparison. Many of these old laws have figured in the historical accounts of the Anniversary, but a number of them have been passed over which are curious and interesting, and may be worth transcribing here...
...established a department which does not pretend to be remarkably scholarly, but which does its best with the problem before it, a problem that none but men who do not teach English have ever solved to their own satisfaction. Loaded down with undergraduate literature, making many mistakes of method in instruction where all methods are as yet experimental, the English Department works on; and feels year by year more gratitude to the critic at once severe and kind who has already made something out of nothing, and who with good health and fair play will make in time a department...