Word: methods
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Hard work is needed, and a great deal of it. Nothing will invite disaster more quickly than the assumption that, because we have won, we shall win. Every bit of experience that Harvard has gained in her past debates ought to be consulted; every method which has been found good ought to be so thoroughly studied that not a whit of its efficacy shall be lost at the time of the decisive debate; and every improvement, shown to be possible by weakness in past debates, ought eagerly to be carried out. The wisdom gathered from past debates...
...moment you have a definite aim, attention is quickened, the mother of memory, and all that you acquire groups and arranges itself in an order that is lucid, because everywhere and always it is in intelligent relation to a central object of constant and growing interest. This method forces upon us the necessity of thinking, which is, after all, the highest result of all education. For what we want is not learning, but knowledge; that is, the power to make learning answer its true end as a quickener of intelligence and a widener of our intelleciual sympathies...
Raphael is the representative of classic art. This does not mean that his subjects or even his conceptions were Greek, although some of them were, but that his method was classic. Everything in his work blends with its surroundings. He was a harmonist, a unity of many things. He established no special element in the Renaissance but he put together the best of everything in an inimitable way. His one weakness was in brush work, but this fault was universal in all artists of the period...
...Abuses of Training," by a graduate of '91, condemns the present method of training for intercollegiate contests in very strong terms...
...debated once with Yale and once with Princeton. The triangular league, however, has not been realized. Princeton, although asking for participation in debates which Harvard and Yale had already formed on a certain definite plan, wished that this plan should be altered so as better to conform with the method of debate to which Princeton men are accustomed. The request was, naturally enough, not granted by Yale or Harvard, and Princeton declined to debate on other terms...