Word: methods
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...University. It is one of the two or three largest libraries in the country. That a student should go through college without once drawing books from it, it indeed surprising. Nothing can be easier than using the library, with such a complete and convenient catalogue and such a simple method of drawing books. The library might do half the educational work of the college if the students only gave it a proper appreciation. Everybody should do some reading; and if it be good, the more the better. He who does not read is rightly termed narrow minded. Freshmen in particular...
...nothing in it, and that it was time thrown away to attend the recitations. While there is much exaggeration in their statement, there is nevertheless much truth as well. Perhaps nothing is so tedious to a young mind as to sit hour after hour in a section there the method of teaching is wearisome and false, not to mention the (often unjust) dislike to the voice and presence of the instructor. No matter how interesting the subject, no matter how much the student may think it will benefit him, unless the head of the department posesses the magnetic power...
...Patch, teacher of Guitar, is in Cambridge two evenings per week and will receive a few more pupils, either beginners or advanced students. Scholars make rapid progress by the most popular and interesting method now in use. Best of references; for terms and particulars address F. W. Patch, Box 76, Waltham, Mass...
...Patch, teacher of Guitar, is in Cambridge two evenings per week and will receive a few more pupils, either beginners or advanced students. Scholars make rapid progress by the most popular and interesting method now in use. Best of references; for terms and particulars address F. W. Patch, Box 76, Waltham, Mass...
...sudden action of the Committee on Athletics, about this time last year, was essentially wrong in method, however necessary it may have seemed in view of the manner in which foot ball was being played. Without any previous warning, some very important regulations were laid down at the last minute, in such an arrogant way that instinctively every student opposed them. Not that anyone objected to the changes proposed, all were aware that the game was unnecessarily brutal. But this sudden awakening of the Committee, just before the great game of the year, seemed uncalled for, if not absurd...