Word: methods
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...view to investigate the system of rowing observed by the college men there. I remained there long enough to gain a thorough knowledge of the art. I can assure you that I had not been at Oxford or Cambridge long before I appreciated the superiority of the English method. I saw at once that my previous knowledge of rowing amounted to nothing. It was all-wrong, and I at once set to work to master the proper system...
...instruction. Look at Yale. It starts in, thoroughly disorganized, to learn an entirely new system. Four of the men rowed last year, but this only renders matters more difficult, for they are so firmly set in their old ways that it will be double work to instill the new method into their minds. The system I advocate is essentially English, except as we rig the boat, the foot boards are nearer the seats than those in England. Then, again, we use a shorter oar by two or three inches than the English oarsmen...
Self-consciousness is peculiar to man. It results in a sense of loneliness, and in the realization of sin. It may be escaped by liquor or opium, sinking the man to the animal state; or by religion, raising him above self-consciousness. The method Christianity officers to accomplish this, is the cultivation of altruistic motives. "Love the Lord thy God with all thy soul and with all thy might and thy soul and with all thy might and thy neighbor as thyself." As altruism, or unselfishness increases, death loses its fears. It will be said in future centuries, that...
...which resembles our own university of today with its elective and lecture system and consequent note books. Were some of those old English rules in force here today how much easier would note taking become. There are but few lecturers at present who pay as much attention to their method of lecturing as that important feature demands. There is much else in them that is good, many respects wherein we might well afford to imitate our ancestors...
...better way to choose the first members than by a popular vote as suggested. But would it not be better to call not for forty men of letters, but for all men of letters worthy to constitute an Academy, leaving numbers, out of consideration? Then by some fair method, let the members of the Academy be determined from these. Let the number of men so determined constitute the standing number of members in the Academy. When there shall have arisen sufficient cause for it for reason of our growing literature, this number can be increased to meet the demand...