Word: methods
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Professor Trowbridge has recently succeeded in perfecting a new method of obtaining X-rays which gives promise of very important results. Heretofore the currents of electricity which have been employed in taking the photographs have been uncertain and fluctuating, so that the pictures obtained have frequently perplexed the surgeons who used them. The new method secures a steady current, and the pictures so taken are remarkable for contrast and definition. Under the old method of taking the photographs the muscles and tendons in a body were invisible and a strong light was required in order to see even the bones...
Mathematical Conference. A Graphic Method of Deducing the Criteria for the Nature of the Roots of Cubic and Quartic Equations. Mr. R. E. Gaines. Sever...
Mathematical Conference. A Graphic Method of Deducing the Criteria for the Nature of the Roots of Cubic and Quartic Equations. Mr. R. E. Gaines. Sever...
...Monthly for March opens with an eloquent appeal by Professor Santayana for a change in the method of teaching Latin in our present educational system. The learning of Latin was a fashion and has passed as all fashions do. "Instead of teaching with Latin and Greek words we should deal with Greek and Latin things. . . . Imagine the content of such courses as Latin 10 and Greek 10 and 11 required for admission to College instead of the present syntax and inflections. . . . Leave the Latin language to the philologists; so wretched and grotesque a shadow as the Latin...
...moral influences from school to college the great necessity is to build up gradually a sense of responsibility. The college must rely on that; it can not wisely impose further restrictions. The school should steadily increase the boys' responsibility and as steadily strengthen him to meet it. One method of doing this is the system of "Prefects," which has worked well where it has been tried, and has shown good results in the later life at college. The college, on its part, should co-operate through some system of optional Faculty advisers and of systematized visiting by some committee...