Word: evenness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...with reasonable promptness, but it was fully ten minutes later before a ladder was raised. In the meanwhile the man had been forced to jump and not firemen but students broke his fall with the life net. In the course of time more apparatus arrived and more men, but even then the lack of training and still more evident lack of capable direction were apparent. There was plenty of shouting by all hands and very little "teamwork...
...members of the department on the truck, the captain having run back to ring in a second alarm. The lieutenant of the truck company aided by several undergraduates then hurried to get out the life net which was spread below Henney, and only just in time, for even before it was sufficiently manned he was forced to jump. The smoke was so dense that he was invisible to those below and landing in the net near the weaker end almost before its holders knew it, his fall was only partially broken and he struck the sidewalk with considerable force, receiving...
...examination of the tables shows that the vote by decades is in every instance in favor of the extension. Only thirteen of the sixty-nine classes voting show a majority opposed to the change, and four "break even." The classes opposing the extension are '40, '41, '49, '51, '53, '58, '66, '71, '75, '88, '97. The classes that voted even are those...
...Barrows, D. D., who delivered the Dudleian Lecture in Appleton Chapel last evening, took for his subject "Natural Religion as revealed in Hindooism." Whereas Christianity is steadily progressing, said he, Hindooism has shown a retrogression from its former ideals. The great reason for this degeneracy is to be found in the positive refusal of the Hindoo to recognize in his religion that broad human sympathy which is the basis of Chris tianity. His is a cold, impersonal pantheism, revelling in contradictions, tolerating all forms of religion and even no religion at all; but refusing to tolerate anything which conflicts with...
...therefore evident what an inconvenience may be caused by even the failure of a single man to keep his appointment. A man should not only consider himself conferring a special favor upon the members of the committee and upon those connected with the portfolio, but should also consider himself bound out of duty to the class to keep his appoinment in order to faciliate the production of the class book, a publication for the class and by the class...