Word: modes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...pointed pretty plainly to the result which is brought out with peculiar emphasis by the recent trouble in the Intercollegiate Football Association. That association is now divided against itself to such an extent that it probably cannot survive another season and very soon we must look for another mode of regulating intercollegiate relations. Wesleyan for one reason or another left the association last Saturday and cancelled her game with Yale; Pennsylvania feels so sore over the recent action that she would probably withdraw from the association if the eligibility of her players was questioned to the extent of official protest...
...relation to the stand which Harvard has long since taken. Harvard is thoroughly in sympathy with the desire to purify athletics in every possible way, and to take any fair, sensible and prudent step to bring this about. The existing troubles can be remedied in a better mode than by applying this rule to every department of the University. Moreover, Harvard especially objects to agreeing to such a rule that shall apply to students now in college. This objection has been officially stated before; and until Harvard takes further steps in the entire matter, further comment is, perhaps, injudicious...
...Electoral College and the expediency of changes in the mode of choosing the President of the United States...
...rows of columns supported the ceiling, the rows being on either side of the room, and the wall between these rooms was always decorated. Plates or slabs of marble were usually used as an ancient form of decoration. A representation of windows was often resorted to as a mode beautifying a room, while on these windows, which were themselves really marble, were pictured scenes of outdoor life. Sometimes scenes of gardens were painted, giving one the idea of beautiful flowers beyond...
Possibly the most interesting article to Harvard men, in the Atlantic Monthly for May is on "The Present Requirements for Admission to Harvard College." There is an excellent account of the evolution of our mode of conducting examinations together with a good discussion of the aim of the college in the matter of choice of subjects. The number contains also some correspondence of Emerson and Thoreau and several stories and poems...