Word: directed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...year at the Law School are fully equal in the amount of work required to the total amount demanded of the postgraduate." This may be all very true, but our correspondent evidently is oblivious of the fact that a great many men come to the Law School direct from preparatory schools. They come to prepare for the pursuit of a particular profession; and, although they may shine in the bright galaxy of that profession, yet it does not at all follow that they are all that a degree of Master of Arts would require them to be, or would represent...
...work done during the total eclipse of the moon on last Saturday evening at the astronomical observatory was in every way successful. The observations were carried on under the direct personal supervision of Professor Pickering who co-operated with the authorities at the Russian observatory of Pulkova in ascertaining the precise time when certain faint stars were occulted by the moon. These stars, usually invisible when in the neighborhood of the moon, on account of the brilliancy of its light, became visible by reason of the shadow of the earth falling on the moon, the light of which was thereby...
...also run a few miles every day. Three pitchers and three catchers are training, and from these it is hoped that a good change battery can be developed. The nine are arranging for an eastern trip. They will leave New Haven Thursday afternoon, March 29, and go direct to Philadelphia, where they will play with the University of Pennsylvania on Friday and the Athletics on Saturday. No further dates have been settled, but during the following week two games will be played with the New Yorks and one or more games with the Brooklyns, Newarks or Jersey Citys. The intercollegiate...
...work required for training, consisting of hand-ball and exercises on the chest-weights and dumb bells, is gone through in a half-hearted, desultory fashion, which precludes the possibility of any good resulting there from. The captain himself, whose duty it is to be always present and to direct the gymnasium work, frequently absents himself. If he has not the time to undertake the task of overseeing the training, some other man ought to be appointed at once. Unless he has a larger number of good players than usual, his nine will far surpass the unenviable reputation gained...
...till recently was the placing determined. They are distributed as follows: One at Washington; the second at the Rose Polytechnic School, Terre Haute, Ind.; a third at the Massachu-chusetts Institute of Technology, and the fourth at Cornell. Dr. T. C. Mendenhall, of the Rose Polytechnic, will direct the work of these stations for a year. Their work will be to establish laws governing atmospheric electricity, and comparing these laws with the laws of the variations of the barometer...