Word: methods
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...days considered an essential for a well-bred man to be conversant with all famous authors. Education, therefore, consisted largely in a cramming process by which the student should become versed in the lives and writings of those men who had won the admiration of the world ; the proper method of testifying progress was to echo the praises which general use endorsed as appropriate. This was usually done without any genuine appreciation of the merits of the writers, resulting thus in a species of emptiness which left a clear path for the reaction which took place in favor of science...
...This method of playing the games has not only the advantage of "facts" in reality, but it is based on the common principles of honor as well. This has been our only claim, and we firmly believe that this method is the only fair and manly basis on which the base-ball games can ever be played. It will be well when this idea becomes firmly fixed in all contests between colleges, to strive to make them as fair as possible instead of endeavoring to gain all the advantage which can be taken from an adversary...
...Hill; and we feel sure the small attendance at this lecture must have been caused by ignorance or negligence on the part of the students. The lecturer intended to give a few informal talks or lectures on the importance of forming a taste for English reading, and the best method to be pursued in acquiring this taste, besides giving a sort of summary of the most prominent and most interesting English writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth century. As such a course would undoubtedly be both interesting and instructive, we hope the rest of the lectures will be given...
...Boston Advertiser of yesterday contains a communication, which, coming from a Harvard graduate, strikes us as very curious. This communication seems to take objection to Mr. Garrison's method of ascertaining the views of the candidates for the board of overseers in the subject of voluntary prayers. The writer "hopes that it is not to be the custom to exact pledges from candidates for the office of overseers to Harvard College, or to make them state in advance how they will vote on subjects, petty or great, which they ought to be free to consider after election." In reply...
...Shell" are up to the average of college standard, but we fail to see the merit in that on "What do You Wear?" The arrangement of the reading matter, resembling that of Life, is very pleasing, so much so that we think the Lampoon might return to this method of arrangement with advantage. The paper contains many things that would hardly be considered appropriate to a Harvard paper, but much of this is chargeable to the proverbial weakness of a first number. Typographically the paper is perfect. Altogether, although the paper is far below what we expected, and although...