Word: methods
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...difficulty may be treated in one of three ways: [a] By collecting the tax still unpaid; [b] By leaving things as they are; [c] By refunding the tax to those who have paid it and remitting what is still due. 1. The first method has no advocates and no advantages. 2. The second leaves unremedied the present unsatisfactory condition of affairs. 3. The third method is the only one worthy of a great and generous nation: [a] To satisfy the states' demands; [b] To straighten out the gov't accounts...
...generally used as at Harvard. The statistics at Yale show that the percent of students using the library is much below that of Harvard; and that of the books which are used, by far the greatest portion are works of fiction. Such facts would seem to indicate that the method of conducting the courses at Harvard is largely to account for the increased use of general literature. This method is to unite, with regular text-books, a large amount of outside reading. At the other colleges this plan is by no means so extensively used, and the motives...
...Hebrew prophet was a unique characteristic of Hebrew life; of some we know a good deal, of others scarcely anything. They came to a sense of their calling by visions and speeches, and were supported in their religious and prophetic work by fees and were also entertained. The method of their teaching was by addresses, and symbolical action...
...moment, the question of the feeling of confidence which the class-if it is made up of honest men and not ward politicians-should have. If the class wants to get the best men for the places, we have a far better way to suggest than this method of deciding on candidates a year beforehand. Let the members of the class talk over available candidates among themselves all they like-the more the better. It is far too early to decide now on the worth and ability of all the men; college life moves so quickly that in a half...
...stamped it with its peculiar individuality. The Hebrew system of the ology is preeminent in its intense religiousness. All ancient nations were religious, as Paul remarked in the case of the Athenians. But the Israelites pursued the theologic idea with a vigor, a persistency, and above all a rational method found in no other people. Religion was to them what philosophy was to the Greeks. This fact cannot fail to strike a scholar of both the Old Testament and the classic poets...