Word: methods
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...American college students, and Harvard men in particular, have by no means an exhaustive knowlege of affairs at English colleges; and every man would do well to read Mr. Winbolt's paper in which he gives a careful account of the year's aquatic program at Oxford, showing the method of selecting freshmen for the crews, the course of training, the races themselves; and in fact, of all that has to do with the "system of river sport that has gradually developed at Oxford during the present century, its hierarchy of clearly defined gradations, its centralization, and its working results...
...announcement is made in another column that the college tennis tournament this spring will be handicap instead of "scratch," as usual. Slight objection has been raised, we understand, in some quarters against the new method. The benefits, however, of offering a strong inducement for men to enter led the executive committee to decide that the change in conducting the tournament was best. They will fix the handicaps as carefully as possible, taking into account the work done by the contestants in previous tournaments, and by the principal players in the tennis league this spring. Such a course, they feel sure...
...Department of the History of Religions, in charge of Professor C. H. Toy. Professor Toy will offer a general course of eighteen lectures, treating the history, aims, and method of the science of History of Religions, and illustrating its principles by studies in the laws of religious progress, with examples drawn from the chief ancient religions...
There are other sides of the question which come up, but those we have mentioned seem to be the principal. The faculty, we understand, is now considering the arguments for these two plans; and is very soon to decide which method they shall adopt for next year. In their vote on the question we trust they will be influenced somewhat by the opinion of the students on a matter which so nearly concerns the latter. We cannot pretend that our view on the subject is the accurate expression of the whole college; because the students have...
...contests will become the possessor of the cup, which is to be known as the University Track Athletic Cup. The time and place for holding each contest, the number and nature of the events, the points that are to count, the rules regulating each contest and each event, the method of counting, the rules regulating the eligibility of contestants and all incidental matters, including the construction of all rules, are to be determined and may be changed and amended by representatives of the two universities, each of which is to have four. Wendell Baker and George B. Morrison are named...