Word: methods
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...method of electing assistant managers will be given its first trial tonight, and in order to assure its success, every man who is entitled to vote should make an effort to be present. The new plan is the outcome of a feeling that the choice of managers should be based upon a uniform system rather than that the authorities in each sport should select new assistants with no check except the nominal requirement of approval by the Athletic Committee. The voters cannot all be expected to know the candidates personally, nor are they always fitted to judge of the executive...
...acknowledge that, in the past; courses in Greek and in Roman literature have been sacrificed to men who intended to teach. Interest has been centred not on thought or method of expression, but on classification of verb forms or irregularities of syntax. A knowledge of the latter is no doubt necessary for appreciation: we must note the peculiar subjunctive or optative to get the peculiar shade of meaning; but we do not gain anything by regarding the peculiar form as a curiosity to be catalogued, as the entomologist catalogues a rare insect. Greek and Latin are not word-puzzles...
...that stage in our development where we must stamp our feet and explode torpedoes to show our approval of or indifference to what the lecturer says. It is very safe to say that the majority of students in these courses where disturbances occur with systematic regularity do disapprove the method of expression at least. Without the least pretence of being in a position to preach against the faults of some childish students, we do feel that the majority should rule and not sit indifferently or with forced smiles while the same few, from self-appointed authority, make jokes of lectures...
...years since the last Freshman debate with Yale was held--the last of a series of five or six joint debates. They were discontinued then largely because they were not of sufficient merit to justify their existence. The speakers were inadequately coached and did not reflect the Harvard method of debating, but rather that in vogue at their preparatory schools...
...Just and Practicable Method of Taxing Railway Property...