Word: evens
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...methods employed are illadapted to the undertaking to convert people to Christianity.- (a) Missionaries provoke opposition and hatred rather than confidence.- (x) Missionaries do not conform to the customs of the natives.- (y) They are lavish in their mode of living.- (b) To the Mohammedans and Budhists, and even to the ignorant heathen, the Christianity of the missionaries is not very attractive.- (x) The missionaries present the Christianity infected with the bitter internal animosities of numerous opposing sects.- (y) Missionaries constantly squabble among themselves, either for more preferment from home, or for more influence among the natives.- (z) The natives...
...educating a reserve of trained engineers for the time of war there is work for every scientific school in the country. The Naval Academy at Annapolis is either unable or unwilling even to supply existing vacancies on a peace footing. The national defense will never be secure until a systematic method of training our college students shall have been adopted in the universities. There are at least a score of institutions which could aid in carrying on the work now under government auspices. Therefore to formulate a plan whereby the work of West Point and Annapolis can be supplemented, ought...
...rays will go through sheets of aluminum 1-10 of an inch thick; a greater thickness of aluminum will absorb only a portion of the rays. The glass of the Crooke's tube is only 1-60th of an inch thick, but even glass as thin as this absorbs so many rays that it presents great obstacles. It has been suggested that an aluminum window be put in the tube and that the photographs be taken with the rays that come through the aluminum, for the reason that the aluminum absorbs hardly any rays while the thinnest glass absorbs...
Doubtless the rays exist in common electric lights and in sunlight, but as yet scientists have proved their existence only in a vessel such as Crooke's tube. With these invisible rays photographs can be taken at any time, even in the sunlight. In connection with the cathode photographs it is interesting to note the length of exposure that has been necessary to take photographs at different periods. The table is as follows...
...than the wrist. At present our experiments are limited to the hand and to children perhaps. My work has been devoted chiefly to shortening the time of exposure necessary and to getting parallel rays. I have succeeded so far in penetrating only about an inch of human flesh, but even this much, when applied to the surgery on the hand will alleviate much suffering...