Word: methods
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...understanding has been acquired among both principals and students of elementary schools as to the purpose for which the change was instituted, and that there has developed a realization of the fact that, for the average boy in a private school, the old plan continues to be the easier method of admission. Evidence that the new plan does not greatly affect the private schools is shown by the fact that out of the total of 154 new plan men 124 came from public schools...
...hardly in place. Mr. Burlingame's story perhaps depends too much, for its impression, on the squalid and the revolting; and his narrative is inferior, on the whole, to his description. Mr. Rogers's account of "Griggs," the English butler, on the other hand, is effective as narrative. The method of suspense is employed with some skill, and a single point of view is well maintained...
...Freshman Debating Club organized last evening at a meeting attended by about 70 members. Maurice Suravitz '13 was the first speaker. He dealt with the advantages of debating as compared with those of athletics. Judge A. P. Stone '93 then spoke pointing out the method used at Harvard, that of being direct, and carefully distinguishing between debating and declaiming...
...interest, especially in connection with those of the corresponding period, as near as may be, of the previous year. In comparing the numbers for the two years, however, it must be borne in mind that in the case of Harvard College great changes have been made in the method of registration. Last year upperclassmen with entrance conditions were registered as Freshmen, and there were something short of one hundred of them. This year such men are registered as Sophomores. Even after this deduction has been made, the number of Freshmen does not represent the number of new men admitted...
...Student Council and the writer of your editorial of May 24 are at fault, I think, both as to the best method of grading men's work, and as to the influence which the change they propose would have on professional tutoring. As, however, my concern here is with tutoring only, and as I have no desire to trespass upon the preserves of the pedagogical theorists, I need say regarding the grading merely that a piece-meal disposal of a course does not seem to me to spell scholarship. Regarding the second point, however, I can deal with facts...