Word: methods
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...That in view of the shortness of the time remaining before the announced assignment of College rooms for the year 1904-05 no change in the method of assigning rooms for next year can be put into effect unless the money to pay for the proposed improvements is provided by April...
...course of development has been, in general, from individual practice in the new stroke, by small squads, to the combined work of the present arbitrary crews of eight; and from a very slow stroke of seven to the minute, allowing the men to master the details of the new method, to the present normal pace of twenty to the minute. The practice has been entirely on the machines, as the heavy work in the tank tends to hinder the development of the easy stroke desired...
...chief faults of the old stroke are to be found in the mode of recovery, which is to reach with hands and body before sliding forward. Partly as the cause and partly as the result of this method, was developed a hurried, laborious, jarring, recovery. The new stroke, it is hoped, will avoid these drawbacks by means of a recovery in which hands, body, and slide all shoot forward, approach full reach, and turn back as nearly in unison as possible, the body reaching forward a little farther than formerly and finishing only slightly back of the perpendicular. A generally...
...Peabody '06 has been appointed manager of the Leiter Cup series, and he will have personal supervision of the matches. By means of a fixed method of scoring, providing an official scorer for each game, the management will be able to keep in close touch with every detail of the games...
...also sending out return postcards containing brief questions about each man's life, the answers to be printed in the class album. As these sketches do not correspond to the "lives" sent to the secretary, it is very important that every member of the class should answer promptly. This method of printing a short account of each man's life with his photograph in the class album is an innovation, and its success depends upon the promptness of the Seniors in replying...