Word: methods
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...This year, we have again continued the rating of all of the Freshmen from a standpoint of bodily mechanics. This aspect of the work was inaugurated in 1916 by Dr. Lloyd T. Brown, and he has kindly continued supervision of it. The method of rating is as follows. The individual's feet are carefully examined and he is questioned as to possible previous trouble with his feet. We have discarded the former and now exploded idea that a man's feet can be judged purely on the basis as to whether the arch is high, low, or flat...
Professor Perry thinks Dr. Fosdick inconsistent in denouncing compulsory military training, and at the same time advocating our accepting a mandate for Armenia. Is it reasonable to suppose in accepting the mandate for Armenia the United States must adopt for her own protection the same hateful method that Germany adopted in her project for world domination? We feel that such methods are not necessary or even desirable; that they are not true to the ideals of the Americanism of which we are proud. For a number of years England has exercised virtual mandates for India and in part for Egypt...
...Train's idea in "The Hanging of the Angel" is very neat and the execution rather too full. This is certainly better writing than our average professional output. On the other hand, Mr. Hamblett's idea is better than his method; an excellent concluding sentiment, 'let the energy which might be spent in hating--turn to changing the conditions...
Another vital change in the code is that which discards entirely the old method of scoring. Instead of the old way, it provides a 1-2-3 method that will make such a score as 15-love only a memory. The proposed change reads as follows...
Another instance of the simplification of tennis that has been proposed by the committee is the revision of the handicapping system. The new method of handicapping will consist of allotting to each player one or more points in a set, and these points will be added to the points made by the player in the entire set. The points won in each game are added together and to this is added the allotted handicap. The player then having the greater number of points wins the set, regardless of the number of games won or lost...