Word: methods
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...teachers, clerks, business men, mechanics, and factory operatives. "To reach the last mentioned class," says Dr. James, "must be a slow process at best. It can be done only as a result of interesting other classes better able financially to assume the initial expense of developing and establishing this method of instruction. When it is once firmly established in a community for one class of society, means will be found of enlarging its scope and usefulness so as to include all. The friends of extension can certainly not be satisfied with anything less than this...
...Jefferson Physical Laboratory. Mr. Henry W. Hodge of New York gave a lecture on "Bridge Erection." He spoke of some points of practical value to students who intend to become bridge designers or constructors. The lecture was illustrated by a large number of lantern slides, showing the method of construction of many large bridges recently constructed...
...wish to make indignant protest against the method pursued by a certain popular lecturer of Harvard in showing his displeasure at the unfortunate presence of those who are not students in his audiences. It would be a very simple draft upon his sense of courtesy to ask them politely to withdraw, but to drive them out by acts and words far from gentlemanly is a strange proceeding in Harvard halls. Let him remember that it was once said of Emerson, "He stood up, just as if he thought other people were as good...
Colonel Winslow said that the players might find this method of batting somewhat awkward at first, but that after a few days practice they would become accustomed to it and then the good results would become evident...
Pedagogical Seminary. Should the extent to which a subject is pursued or the method of teaching it vary with the pupil's probable destination? Mr. W. R. Butler. Sever...