Word: methods
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There will be a Physical Seminar this evening, in Room 28, Physical Laboratory, at 7.30. Mr. Pulsford will lecture on his method of determining the rate of tuning forks. Mr. C. P. Frey will lecture on the electrical devices for the regulation of clocks...
...made by the Acta can be excused as natural, but the statement that the Conference was influenced by recent cheating, which, as one would judge by their statement, was increasing, is wholly false. Cribbing exists and has existed at Harvard, only as it exists in all other colleges, a method pursued only by a few desperate men, and tolerated through dormant college opinion...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - The agitation in college circles of the question of cribbing in examinations and theme work, is indicative of an earnest desire on the part of many students to rid college life of all underhanded methods to render impossible the slurs cast upon us by outsiders, and to place the college student in his true position that of a conscientious seeker after an education that has meaning in it. This agitation does not indicate as some public papers have inferred, that cribbing is present to an alarming degree at Harvard. If true comparisons could be made, there...
...teaching does not gain any efficacy from compulsion. Yet this the present system quite neglects. Compulsion is continued because of a fear that without it the service could not be carried on, and everyone knows the fact. Is this a moral lesson? If it be true that the only method of giving moral guidance to Harvard men is to shut them up in a large room, and force it into their unwilling minds, the lessons will be of little use. Is it not plain that moral teaching gets its strength, not from the fact that men are made to hear...
...center of administration for all the higher grades of service, in order that the bulk of its faculty could be drawn from those actually engaged in the public administration; and its courses ought to be arranged with the greatest possible attention to definiteness of aim, and to practicalness of method, in order to be saved from any danger of doctrinairism...