Word: methods
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...drop-kicking of Captain Mahan, Robinson, and Whitney. This form of attack was the only one used from scoring position, and the large number of successive goals from the 20, 25, 30, and 35-yard lines would seem to indicate that great stress is to be laid on this method of scoring. Captain Mahan went through the drill with but one error, and that from the 45-yard line. His kicking was remarkably consistent...
...modern reader is content with picked-up ideas and "facile guesses" regarding the personality of this great Victorian figure. The real flexibility of Carlyle's use of language, "the rich accent of Annandale," is concealed for many by his vagaries and eccentricities. Moreover, the violence and unpersuasiveness of his method shocks the unsympathetic...
...that of allowing wide choice and initiative as regards reading. Sometimes this reading is not tested, and the students' word is taken as sufficient evidence that it has been adequately done. Without wishing to attack student honor unduly, one may suggest that this is not a very dependable method. It results too often in glancing over the matter to be read, if the reader has a conscience; otherwise nothing is done...
...star of last year's freshman eleven. Only recently have they been able to remove their scholastic conditions. Great progress has been made in every department the last week. In the Lehigh game last year Yale worked the passing game most successfully, running up 21 points entirely by this method...
...demands of college life upon a man's energies, one may recommend a more or less thorough planning of time. The experience of the greatest successes in college goes to prove that routine brings better work, shorter working hours and much more satisfaction than the hit-or-miss method, and the consequent worry over work half-done or not done...