Word: methods
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...nine or ten years' course, and corresponds to the American preparatory school and the first two years of college. Mathematics, Greek, Latin, French, history, geography, natural history and elementary natural philosophy, a short course in logic, with elective Hebrew and English form the course of study. The method is systematic, the discipline rigorous. The students usually pass from the gymnasium into the university.-Dartmouth...
...Davidson, '86, will lecture on the method of least squares at the Mathematical Seminar, on Thursday...
This plan, in the first place, follows out the suggestion made by us last week, that the upper classes should have the greatest number of delegates. This is certainly of great importance, and we hope it will not be overlooked in the meeting. It is the method of representation in the Amherst Senate, the student advisory and governing body, which has, up to this time, attracted most attention in the country on account of its successful working. The second feature of the plan which makes it worthy of consideration is the provision that every class of college men shall...
...morrow the delegates from the several classes meet the Conference Committee of the Faculty for the purpose of considering a method of establishing a permanent means of conference between the students and the faculty. To their consideration is offered the following plan, which, although by no means perfect, is free from the objections urged against the various schemes which have been thus far proposed...
...past week the Faculty have taken another step in the direction of establishing relations of more perfect harmony between themselves and the students. The committee, appointed from the different classes, will soon be called upon to express their views as to the best method of a permanent conference...