Word: methods
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...today, should be well attended by the students who are interested in the success of this institution The advantages of such a room are obvious and are well shown by the number of men who frequent the rooms. It is difficult, however, to pay the current expenses and this method is taken to increase, as far as possible, the receipts. The files are often in themselves very valuable, and should command a good price. We hope the sale will meet with the success which it deserves...
...that furnished by the many "scrub" and "table" nines which have been formed among the, so to speak, non-professional players of the college. This result ought to be encouraged, for in many ways it is a most desirable one. In the first place, it proves a most excellent method to get the men out of doors for exercise, a result which is highly commendable by the faculty, if we may judge by their utterances of last winter of the athletic question. Moreover, it may happen that some men will be brought out who can be induced to practice with...
...entrance was "to read and converse in easy Greek and Latin," and although candidates for admission did not come up to the present ideal in classical knowledge, still it must be confessed that they made the crude attempt of a system soon to become universal. Until quite recently the method pursued in the study of languages has been a peculiar one, not to put it too strongly, a method employing the dictionary largely in translating the author's ancient and modern, and altogether ignoring the sound of a language. In fact it was a reasoning system, one that was largely...
...classes so that they may become real and live to the students. The scheme is to educate the ear as well as the eye by assiduous practice, so that the languages can be spoken as well as read, and it is almost useless for us to add that this method is the only thoroughly satisfactory one. English, for the time being, is left behind entirely, and all conversation is carried on maforeign tongue. Such a school, of course, could only result in giving the student a practical knowledge of the language he is studying. We speak thus well...
...Lutz will be glad to furnish any information desirable to the students concerning the summer School of Languages conducted under the Sauveur method, which will be held this year at Burlington, Vermont...