Word: methods
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...plan were adopted of having a class tournament precede the championship contest. The victors in the class tournament might then be selected, either to compete finally in the championship tournament or the two contests might be kept entirely separate. Perhaps the present plan may be the fairer method of deciding the championship of the college, but a class championship contest would certainly do much to arouse interest and rivalry among the classes. If it does not seem best to adopt the plan in the fall championship tournament, we see no reason why the experiment could not be tried...
...more colleges and halls. In short, the room rent for students at Harvard is two or three times as great as at Oxford. At Oxford all lodging houses in which students are permitted to reside are licensed, and the rents and management supervised by officers of the university; a method which is quite practicable at Harvard, without trenching upon private rights...
...does prove successful there would seem to be no reason why it should not be largely extended and made to include under its operations many other courses. Indeed, it is a question that may well be asked, why all our courses are not half-year courses? Such is the method pursued, we believe, with all electives at the University of Michigan, where the plan has proved very satisfactory...
...serve the purpose of the printed descriptions of courses offered by some of the departments, Prof. Palmer will devote the next two hours in Philosophy 1 to a description of the various courses offered in philosophy, as well as to advice as to what courses to take and what method to pursue in a course of private reading with criticisms on the principal text books and authors in philosophy...
...that the examination period is approaching again, the vexed question arises: Cannot some regular method of marking be devised, which all the instructors in each freshman department may use. The marking system, which is unfair enough throughout the whole college, is particularly unfair in the case of the freshman year. It so happens that, while several sections pursue the same subject and have an equal amount of knowledge, one division of them is subjected to a very hard examination and the other to an easy one; the former being marked freely, so as to allow nearly every one to pass...