Word: methods
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Apollo, Aesculpius, Dionysus, and Demeter. The religion is polytheistic, but its polytheism is more monotheistic than monotheism, for each state in Greece was independent, and each one having its pet divinity, each divinity was all-powerful in its homes. Everything was disorganized; there was a great lack of method. Questions as to prerogatives of the divinities never arose; exact limits were not set to the powers of any god. There is never any quarrel as to which god is the chief one, the great point is that all are superior to man. Zeus was their father, he reigned...
...Harvard Union will hold a meeting this evening at 7.30 in Sever 11. The question for debate will be: Resolved, that increased subsidies furnish the best method of improving American shipping interests. The principal disputants assigned for the debate are: affirmative, C. P. Blaney, '90, and P. L. Horne, '92; negative, C. Beardsley, Sp., and M. A. Bartlett, '93. The following questions will be submitted from which choice will be made for the next debate. (1) Resolved, that the resignation of Bismarck is an advantage to Germany. (2) That the McKinley tariff bill should be passed. (3) That candidates...
...members were elected. It was announced that the debating society of Boston University had declined to accept the challenge of the Union to a joint debate. The following question was then chosen for the next regular meeting on April 17: "Resolved, That an increase of subsidies is the best method of improving American shipping interests...
...publishers at the expense of the reading public.- Front vol. 1, 502; Public Opinion, March 1, 1890, p, 503. (a) The public wants cheaper books-Forum, vol. 1. 504. (b), The publishers, not the authors, would be benefited.- American, vol. 7, 342. (c) A treaty would be a better method of dealing with the subject than a bill.- Nation...
...unfortunate that discord should have arisen in the Board of Overseers with regard to the methods of instruction at Harvard, yet nothing could be more mis-directed than the blame which Mr. Morse attributes to our instructors in Political Economy. Their method differs in no way from the freedom of spirit and catholicism which characterize all departments of the university. The traditions at the basis of all Harvard instruction do not tolerate the imposition of any one set of views upon the students. The method of the teachers of Political Economy is therefore to call the attention of their students...