Word: methods
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...facts; and thus there would be none of the duplication of work, which at present makes so many lectures seem unprofitable. This result could be more easily obtained if all prescribed reading were done and tested before, instead of after, the lectures covering the same ground. Until some such method is adopted, by which lecturers may be enabled to tell their students things of real value to them, the undergraduate attitude with regard to the cutting of certain courses can not be considered wholly unreasonable...
...gradually dwindled and disappeared. A course counting for a degree would undoubtedly be well attended and would materially benefit those who took it, but as it could not, from its very nature, be made compulsory, it would naturally fail to reach the entire student body. There are two methods, however, by which all students could be reached,--through English A, or by an entrance test in reading. The former method seems perhaps the more feasible, and there is considerable spare time in the recitations in English A, which might very properly be devoted to practice in reading. But whether through...
...undersigned earnestly commend to the members of Harvard University the building enterprise of the Cambridge Young Men's Christian Association. We believe that a substantial contribution from them would be a desirable method of expressing the University's interest in the educational and civic work which the Association is doing for the people of Cambridge...
...calculated to bring very satisfactory results. There is nothing, of course, to prevent anyone from laying out his work to suit himself, but experience proves that the majority of undergraduates are incapable of spreading it out judiciously, and leave everything until the last minute. Such an irregular method of work in any line of endeavor must necessarily prove unsatisfactory and inefficient...
...order to be able to write the communication printed in another column, the author must have shut both eyes tight on the unsuccess of the old Senior dormitory system and the present discussion which has been airing the situation for some weeks. There are two views as to the methods of unifying a class by juxtaposition: one is by mixing its members in a haphazard manner, the other by allowing congenial and larger groups to apply together. The former method, which the communication advocates at least in part, has been tried and found wanting, both because men are unwilling...