Word: methods
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...professional, since the pitching is not so swift nor so sure, two requisites seldom found in an amateur pitcher. The delivery of the ball may be supplemented with a number of dodges only known to the regular ball player but an amateur generally settles down to one method, particularly his own of pitching the ball, which will soon be learned by the rest of the team and consequently no good will come of the practice. I once heard an old ball player say "take an ordinary fielding nine, but all sure and hard hitters, add the finest pitcher and catcher...
...poorly graded and drained, and the flag walks so badly laid that they are all a series of puddles from end to end. The college may think that plank walks are more expensive than a proper grading and relaying of the paths. If so let them take this latter method of improvement. But this would be but a makeshift. These are many times when the best graded paths become clogged with snow and ice. In such cases the paths are as bad as poorly graded ones. The only satisfactory remedy in such cases is a system of raised board walks...
...after the plant was put in, the college could certainly find the means. For supplying the plant either a popular subscription might be raised or some one of the friends of education be appealed to for funds. Many men would be willing to stand their share if the first method were to be adopted, for it would enable them at such crowded times as the present to get a better chance at the books on the reference shelves, to suit their own convenience better in their use of the library, and to have a well lighted room for general reading...
...notice with pleasure that at the last meeting of the trustees of Philips Exeter Academy it was decided to change the pronunciation of Latin to the Roman or continental method now in use at all the important colleges. A few years ago when the pronounciation was changed here at Harvard, much dissatisfaction was at first expressed in the preparatory schools, as it was readily seen that the same change must be made there if the pupils were to be fitted for Harvard. The English method was held up as important on account of its analogy to the English language, enabling...
Among the topics of the evening was the idea of rendering some substantial aid to the University of California, and a committee was appointed to confer with the regents of the California University as to the most useful method of furnishing or endowing a scholarship in the name of the Harvard Club of San Francisco. This association has always entertained the most friendly feelings towards the university at Berkeley, and has more than once expressed itself in this direction, and whilst its affection for Harvard never diminishes-but is constantly on the increase, if any one may judge from...