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Tests of quickness of movement similar to those made by Dr. Fitz at the Lawrence Scientific School are being made by Professor Scripture of the Yale psychological department. One of the most interesting of these tests is an arrangement for measuring a runner's reaction time down to the thousandth...
VI.Montalgne.Essay writers of the old fashioned Tatler school were wont to catch at some hint offered by their daily walk as a point from which to wind off the yarn of their discourse, and at the same time supply the material for their spinning. Montaigne set the example of this...
"I was in University Chapel for the valedictory exercises of the Senior class. Oration by Devereux of Salem, poem by young Holmes, son of Rev. Dr. Holmes of this town. He is both young and small in distinction from the others, and on these circumstances he contrived to cut some...
About 1700 a machine was invented to make use of the repellent force of steam. Later a high pressure engine was contrived by Leupold. Single acting atmospheric engines came into use in 1775. These were used entirely for pumping water, as rotary motion had not yet been discovered. In 1800...
Dr. R. H. Harrison of the Veterinary School has completed some interesting experiments of a new device for controlling refractory horses. The trials were made upon a vicious animal which had the habit of taking the bit in his teeth and bolting. The experimenter contrived to connect the bit by...