Word: methods
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...This method of batting is particularly effective against a swift pitcher, where any swing to speak of is impossible...
...kind offered at an American College. In Economics the important courses are extended so as to include more hours per week, while in English - Yale's greatest deficiency in the past - not only are several new courses added but there will be introduced an entirely original and practical method of developing literary style and facility in writing. This will consist of the "office hour" system of instruction given by the rhetorician, Dr. Charles S. Baldwin, at present of Columbia College, who will confer personally with the students of the various courses relative to the shaping of their style - also with...
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...
...invention proves as useful as it seems reasonable to hope that it will be, it will perhaps completely revolutionize rowing methods. The testing machine will show by its automatic record what the individual faults of each member of a crew are. By doing this it will give inestimable help to the coaches. Under the present method the coaches have nothing but the eye to guide them in determining upon the strength or weakness of a stroke; the new invention, however, should give them valuable scientific information which would be of inestimable value in forming the stroke for a crew...
Clyde Augustus Duniway opened the negative for Harvard and affirmed the real practical nature of the question. He admitted that evils do exist, but denied the efficacy of the method proposed in the question. He then presented opinions of many prominent city officials and laid the blame to the neglect of the well to do citizens. The point followed that a property qualification would not awaken these better classes to any better sense of their duty to their city and its welfare...