Word: methods
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...studied elocution previously. As a refusal to grant this request seriously cripples the instructor's work, Mr. Jones, in justice to the students and to his profession, felt called upon to resign his position as instructor. The work in elocution since the establishment of the class method of instruction has been unprecedented. The numbers attending the class have increased steadily, from less than twenty to nearly a hundred. The interest of the students has been shown in the establishment of the Shakspere Club, the presentation of Julius Caesar last year, and the rivalry displayed in the Boylston Prize Speaking...
Whereas we recognize the right of students "to act the part of teacher," still this new method of obtaining scholars seems a little out of the bounds of propriety and justice...
...have censured the carelessness of some students with regard to their conduct in the library. Loud talk and noisy shuffling has become with some men a positive habit. Within the last two days, certain students have been the cause of great annoyance to the readers by their careless method of work. This subject is discussed and censured twice a year regularly, but each time the abuse is revived. Such a practice cannot be too severely rebuked. The selfishness displayed is peculiarly irritating as gentlemanly reminders of the trouble caused, are of little avail. As gentlemanly measures only are allowed...
...right method to pursue to keep the work of the crew a profound secret to outsiders until, say, within one week of the race, and if any possible good can be expected from such a method, everybody would gladly acquiesce for the sake of expected success, but whenever a member of the crew is asked a question, mysterious winks and dubious monosyllabic replies are all the satisfaction usually obtained. When the university crew is beaten in a two mile race by a class crew, no explanation is offered and the old, old threadbare subterfuge is adopted, the blind, unreasoning method...
...they act unofficially or not at all, there is no use in electing a committee. And yet, however great confidence the faculty may have in us, and I sincerely hope we deserve it, it is still necessary, if we undertake student government, to have some definite and practical method of working. The faculty may disregard the "how," but with us it is half the question...