Word: methods
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...very probable," said Mr. Charles C. Lane, Director of the University Press, "that at the close of the present printers' strike in New York, the strikers will find that many of the publishers employing them will have adopted the new method of printing introduced by the Literary Digest. The rapid improvement which each new issue of the Digest shows, and the comparative cheapness of the process, makes this seem likely...
...method of choosing Rhodes scholars, put into practice for the first time this fall, remedies three defects in the old system. The committees of se-Fruition have been reorganized. In the past, when certain College officials were the judges, there was a tendency to reserve the honors for men from their several institutions. The committee is now composed of former Rhodes scholars, and their familiarity with conditions at Oxford makes them competent to select students best fitted to meet these conditions with success...
America has the material. An effective method of choice will single it out. And the "Yankee" at Oxford will be more truly representative of the best that America can produce...
...adequately prepared before the recent war, our rights would never have been violated. In the future, we must have an army of sufficient strength to cope with any attack. The odium attached to a large standing army would prohibit the enlistment of any great number of soldiers. The ideal method is to have a small regular army as a nucleus with a well trained democratic citizen force as a reserve...
...total of 64 men has been retained by the University Glee Club for the coming season. These trials, the hardest ever held, were conducted under the quartet system, the whole number of competitors being divided up into quartets, all the groups being as nearly as possible equal. By this method every man was given an opportunity to sing in company with three others, and yet be judged with regard to his individual ability...