Word: methods
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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This may be a lucid statement in connection with this subject, but we confess that we do not understand it. Is it a Yale joke, or is it the "Yale method" of argument? We confess we have not given the subject of betting any prominence in considering this subject, and although we may speak "but of the heart," we are not aware that we have spoken "out of the pocket." So far as it means anything, it seems to mean that we were influenced in our article by some betting interest in the game. Comment is unnecessary. Having mentioned this...
...extend their hearty thanks to the actors in "Hernani" who have consented to perform again, for after the novelty of the thing has worn off, acting becomes irksome to amateur performers and considerable inducement is required to get them to act out their parts under such circumstances. The same method of [disposing of the tickets, which worked so well at the first sale will be tried again, and it is needless to add that haste is desirable in making out the applications...
...Greek 7, after the reforms of Cleis Thenis have been finished, the lectures will be devoted to a study of Grecian Chronology, the method of(????) 3 (Paragraph...
About a year ago experiments were begun at the request of U. S. Signal Service by Prof. Trowbridge on the subject of atmospheric electricity with a view to learn its value for meteorological purposes. The method employed was that known as the Thompson one and required very delicate instruments. The result is that a beam of light from a gas flame is reflected from a mirror upon a prepared sheet of sensitried paper and the record of any change in the place of an electric needle is thus obtained by photography. The apparatus in use has several new points...
...various processes of smelting were carefully explained and the improvements which have taken place since the rise of the industry were described, from the primitive method to the present blast furnace, each receiving a careful description. The pudding process which was formerly a very important industry, requiring over 2,000,000 tons of ore in 1882, is rapidly passing away and being superseded by soft steel, which the lecturer described at some length...