Word: methods
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...list of speakers is also significant. Mr. Thayer, as editor of the Graduates' Magazine for twenty-three years, has been a leading observer of the growth and standardization of the curriculum. Professor Parker has been the actual administrator of the present method of concentration and distribution. And President Lowell's talk will have the clearness and authoritativeness of the founder of the elective system who has made this, like the Freshman dormitories, one of the fundamental policies of his administration...
...announcement that the manuscripts for the Bowdoin and the Garrison prizes are due today emphasizes an undue hardship imposed upon the undergraduate competitor. With his eleventh-hour method of work, he invariably is obliged to exert his efforts to the utmost to complete the manuscript within the required time. But the hour examinations come at this period as spectral interruptions. That he will neglect in the last few days of the competition the essential revision of his manuscript and devote himself to the examinations seems improbable...
...Union, they say, is democratic--"ruled by the people," according to etymology. Then let the Union be democratic, without the tyrannical and undemocratic method of compulsion. A SENIOR...
Perhaps the easiest method to follow in giving a short account of the activities of a laboratory is to describe the arrangement of the rooms and the uses to which they are put. The eastern end of the basement of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory is occupied by the machine shop, the carpenter shop and the glassblower's room. This department may be said to be the heart of the laboratory, for it is here that the instruments used in the courses are kept in repair and it is here that the special apparatus for investigation is constructed. The northeastern part...
...painting is characteristic of the sea pieces of Turner's middle period, in which he abandons the dark tonality of his earlier sea-pieces, but has not yet adopted the more impressionistic handling of his last period. The painting is carefully executed according to a very definite method of procedure, and the surface is beautiful in quality like those of his earlier works. In paintings of this type, Turner's method in its combination of under-painting, transparent glazes, and opaque scumbles suggests that of the great Venetian figure painters, applied to landscape. The whole picture is wonderfully luminous...