Word: methods
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Beginning with this year, a new arrangement and method of teaching the subjects of the first two years will be followed at the Medical School. The entering class will devote the entire first half year to the study of anatomy and correlated subjects, and the last half year to physiology and its correlated subjects. Second year students will study Pathology and Bacteriology until February and will spend the last four months in preparing for the clinical work of the third and fourth years...
...believed that this logical arrangement of the subjects of the first two years will enable the student to concentrate his energies on each course to a much greater advantage than he can when his daily attention is divided among several courses. Another advantage of this method is that it greatly increases the amount of time which can be devoted to each separate course...
...frame-work of Harvard's debating system as it now stands, seems effective. All that is needed is some method to make interest in it general, and this Yale system presents itself as a possibility. How to apply it is then the question...
...success of Yale's experiment in the "Wigwam" is happily suggestive, however. Though it is inadvisable to continue the 1900 class club on a formal basis, it might with a somewhat different and more social organization still be carried on in the interests of Harvard debating. As is the method at Yale, the club might be divided into several "camps" which could compete informally, debating contemporary college subjects, which, in not requiring a great degree of preparation, would not discourage the busier debaters, and would be most effective in popularizing debate. The Sophomore and Freshman clubs would still retain their...
Those who have had experience in collecting here or anywhere know but too well that the only way to get money out of a man is to "dun" him in person. The postal card method has been tried before on classes which in the end subscribed liberally toward their crews, and found decidedly wanting. The present Senior class, which has now a large surplus in its crew treasury, will remember that in its Sophomore year, over-confidence in the postal method nearly proved disastrous. A very possible solution of the present problem may thus be for some...