Word: methods
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...careful not to make the elective system a hobby. It is a serious question, 'To what extent shall the system of electives be carried?' It is with him a matter of grave inquiry 'whether to exchange so widely, as so many seem disposed to do, the long-established methods of our American Colleges for foreign university methods - as, for example, to make all college studies elective - does not presuppose and require an extent and degree of previous training not yet possible to be attained in our preparatory schools; whether its effect with a large class of students would...
...evident, from the departure recently made, that President Eliot is willing to give the students the benefit of his advice in regard to their choice of studies and the best method of carrying on their work while in college. Could he not be induced to continue his good counsel in a lecture to the senior class, and tell the members of that body how to solve the most difficult of all problems - choosing a profession...
...library which has been a shame to some other classes has got to be a thing of the past. Unfortunately for eighty-nine, however, it has not had the advantage of such a talk as was given by Mr. Kiernan last year in regard to the proper method of using the library. No doubt that gentleman can be prevailed upon to repeat his remarks in the near future, and in the mean time all information desired by anyone is readily obtained at the desk...
...Yale News criticizes the action of the class of '88 in not cheering more than they did on Saturday. It was the opinion of the men who accompanied our nine, that the Yale freshmen were determined to take a departure from the old Yale method of rattling, and, notwithstanding, cheered their nine well...
...grass. He might then be moved from place to place by "the authorities," and put athwart the pths of the sand-loving students who prefer to see a checker-board of paths, rather than to take a few extra steps and have a nice lawn of grass. Such a method of preventing the destruction of the beauty of the yard would be far more agreeable than the one which the college has at last resorted to, and would appeal, if not more strongly at least more pleas-antly, to the consciences of the pathmakers...