Word: methods
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...President Eliot opened the first meeting of the year with an address on "College Loyalties." At a later meeting Professor Norton spoke on "Interest in Literature in its Relation to the Life of the Undergraduate." At the fifth meeting Professor Goodale spoke of the "Moral Aspect of the Scientific Method." All of that year's meetings were devoted to questions of daily interest, or to the discussion of thoughts uppermost in men's minds. In 1889-90 the Conferences were devoted to a series of addresses on the various professions, each lecture being given by a man holding a high...
...resistance in the last Advocate is "The Saving of Bridgeman" by Mr. M. O. Wilcox. Its characteristic features are similar to those of most of the stories by the same author. It describes college life and the incident dealt with is treated in the same minute and carefully studied method. As a piece of literary composition, it is creditable; the proportions are well preserved throughout and the descriptive passages contribute satisfactorily to the general effect of the narrative. The subject of the story is not as praiseworthy. It deals with a feature of life here which is too easily seized...
...Booth's attitude toward the state is simply this: If he can absolutely prove that his method for abolishing poverty is a good one, then let the state step in it and carry...
Professor Royce has written us a very kind letter thanking us for the use of our columns throughout the course of lectures which he has just finished. For our part, we were only too glad to be able to be useful to him. It has always been our method to consider Harvard news of first importance, and our columns are always open within reasonable limits to those professors who desire to use them. Professor Royce says that "it is this kind of aid, given to academic enterprises, that makes instructors feel themselves regarded as your fellow-students, and that...
...noticed an account of the sale of boxes and seats for the Yale Glee Club Concert, and find that by this sale the Yale navy will realize over eight hundred dollars from the premiums alone paid for the best seats. We cannot help being struck with so admirable a method of raising money for the crew, and feel bound to recommend it to both our Glee Club and Crew managements. There is no doubt that the old way of getting money is carried to excess, the subscription method is a burden, and ought to be done away with; but money...