Word: methods
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Again the time of the annual college lottery draws near. The rules and regulations, governing this distribution of the few prizes, and the many blanks, have been received by each student, with the Bursar's periodic compliments. Several changes are noticed in the method of assigning college rooms. Hereafter, Holworthy is to become a special paradise of upper class men. No '89 man can have even the satisfaction of imagining that he has a small chance of becoming an inmate of those inviting walls. Sub-freshmen and all under-graduates, this year, will make their applications at the same time...
...report on the University library, Mr. Justin Winsor describes the method by which books are obtained from the library by students from the Annex, and at the same time, explains what has puzzled so many students, why Annex students are never seen drawing out books. Mr. Winsor says: "A pass book, containing titles of books wished for, is sent by a messenger to Gore Hall twice a day. Many of the titles thus presented have all the defects of inexactness and ambiguity which come from inexperience in using titles, and, as it devolves upon the library attendants to attach shelf...
...flags, of which one half is borne by the other colleges;- expenses incurred on behalf of the class crews, and refunded by them, and c., and c. These nominal expenditures make the sum total of the expenses of the Boat Club seem, to one who is ignorant of the method of keeping the accounts, much larger than it really...
...teaching of one of the most popular courses in the college curriculum. I would not deem it right to speak of the matter, if the action of another professor during the first half year in the same course had not been so diametrically opposed to the present method of teaching. The course in English VII. purposes to give those who elect it a view of English literature during the eighteenth century. The plan pursued during the first half year kept this idea steadily in view, and the course of lectures proved to be one of the most instructive and exhaustive...
...club will have to resort to the method pursued by '84 in order to dispose of their tickets for the performances in New York. A certain number of ladies, prominent in the society of New York city, have kindly consented to act as patronesses of the club entertainment. What tickets remain after the sale here in Cambridge, can be obtained by applying to them. This in some respects, is better than a public sale in New York, for the influence of these ladies, ought to insure a ready disposal of all the remaining tickets for both nights. The only trouble...