Word: methods
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...annual meeting of the Intercollegiate Swimming Association several changes were made in the method of deciding the intercollegiate championship. Instead of holding the water polo and swimming contests at separate times, all the swimming contests being held on one night, there will be a series of dual meets consisting of a combination of contests. Every team will have a dual meet with every other team in the Association, and the one winning the greatest number of meets will get the championship. At each meet there will be a water polo game, a plunging, and a fancy diving contest...
...lecture on Wednesday will be on "Philosophy and Life" and the other seven lectures, which will follow on consecutive Saturday and Wednesday evenings, will treat the subject under the following six heads: "The Pragmatic Method," "Common Sense Pragmatically Considered," "Applications of Pragmatism to Some Philosophic Problems," "The Many and the One," "Pragmatism and Truth," "Pragmatism and Religion...
...important changes from the present system are as follows: The membership is enlarged: this is demanded by the increased size of the University. The qualifications of all candidates, except those for the first eight are to be investigated and reported by a membership committee. At present no such method of determining the fitness of candidates exists, and the members are often ignorant of the actual qualifications of the men on whom they vote. The election of the five additional members is to be entirely in the hands of the undergraduates. At present the graduate Society, which often has little...
...Senior class at a meeting in Lower Massachusetts last night, decided to adopt the same method for the election of class and Class Day officers and committees as was adopted by the classes...
...constitution of the class, at this meeting a committee of ten should have been elected to nominate class officers as was done during the two previous years, but owing to the large number of Class Day officers and committees, and to the many rules governing their election, this method of choosing a nominating committee was deemed inefficient...