Word: diagrams
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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George Francis Train gave a rather incoherent lecture to a small audience in Bangor on Monday evening. Among other things, he drew a diagram, on which he represented himself as on the top of a high mountain, exceeding in knowledge everybody else in the world. He placed Harvard graduates in the bottom layer, bunco steerers next above them, and then Ralph Waldo Emerson...
...accompanying diagram represents Dr. Sargent's anthropometric chart for the plotting of the physical development. "The parts at which the observations were made, are indicated by the list at the left side of the chart. The perpendicular lines divide into classes all of the measurements for each part that were surpassed or unsurpassed by given percentages of the persons examined, as shown by the figures at the top of the chart. The upper number at the top of the line shows the per cent, that at each part surpassed the class indicated by that line. The lower number shows...
...second paper, a diagram of the chart and an explanation of its use will be given...
...show. Their leading transparency informed the public that they were "drumming for clients." Their other transparencies, though all based on legal catches were exceedingly clever. One represented "Circuity of Action," as exemplified by a corporal's arm and a trim maiden's waist; its reverse, by a diagram of a gentleman birching a boy, gave a good illustration of "Quarter Merited." A second displayed a picture of Austin Hall. A third had cartoons of a gory scalp, labeled, "The First Fee," a Puritan demolishing an Indian, thereby illustrating the "Ancient Action of Conversion;" a convict suit labeled "Livery of Seizer...
...nearly horizontal line in the lower part of this diagram shows that the increase at Yale is from 500 to 563, or 12 1-2 per cent., while the dotted line of Harvard's progress indicates an increase from 419 to 1,068. or 155 per cent. In other words, the mere gain at Harvard amounts to a greater number of students than Yale has ever had in its Academical Department! If for ten years longer these ratios of increase should remain unchanged, in 1895 Harvard College would be teaching over 1,700 students, while only about one-third...