Word: methods
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Regular meeting of the class in the Allen method of shorthand at 7.45 this evening, 1270 Mass...
...system of scoring in matches between members of the Harvard Golf Club, which was planned at the beginning of the season, has been given up and the method employed last year is now in use. It is, in brief, that the number of holes a player makes over and above his opponent's score shall go as so many points to the credit of the winner...
...govern competition for the debate with Princeton form a third step towards remedying the faults presented at the outset this year by the debating situation at Harvard. The formation of a Sophomore Club and the decision of the Union and Forum to consolidate are two improvements, and this new method of trial also promises to be beneficial...
Taken as a whole it seems better calculated to pick the best men with fairness and accuracy than the old method. Under the system which has heretofore been the general rule, it is extremely hard for the judges to select the best four out of a large number of five minute speakers. Then again a five minute speech in offering little opportunity for rebuttal does not furnish a true criterion of argumentative power. By providing for more than one preliminary trial if the number of contestants is large, the new regulations insure adequate trial to every promising debater...
What is the use of making three to six strokes for a letter when you can write that letter with one motion? New classes in the Allen method now forming. 1270 Mass...