Word: folds
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...mathematics. He takes the entrance examination in that subject with '88, gets a certificate stating the fact, and when he comes back to enter with his class, is examined only in those requirements in which he has not yet passed. The advantages of such a system would be two fold. In the first place, it would be better for the boy; he would have so much off his mind and could give undivided attention to his other studies, instead of looking forward to an examination embracing the work of three or four years; he would be examined...
...fire on account of the amount of power used, which requires the larger wire to convey the electric fluid. The best carbon is the cylinder carbon, which has a much greater illuminating surface and consumes only one quarter as much power as the filament carbon, and gives four fold the amount of light for the same power, requiring at the same time a very small wire, thereby avoiding all danger from fire. It is fifty percent. cheaper than the gas that is being used in Cambridge at this time. The Incandescent lamp constructed with the carbon tube or cylinder, gained...
President Robinson of Brown University, at the alumni dinner in Boston last Wednesday evening, said: "Education has a two-fold purpose, first discipline and then the acquirement of knowledge. The first of these is the chief aim of academic training; not only discipline of intellect, but also discipline of all powers of man. Now, the discipline of all these powers is to be done by government, by the recognition that in colleges there are laws and laws are to be obeyed. So long as I remain where I am I propose that students shall cultivate habits of regularity and attention...
...them; but their physical powers are in demand, and this double draft upon their energies sometimes costs them their degrees. Men have been induced to enter the professional schools after graduation, that they might help retain the championship for certain sports. The evil of such a course is two-fold. It tends to raise the standard of the sport beyond the capacity of the undergraduate, and thus limits the number that can participate in it. It makes hard work of what was intended as a recreation. Therefore...
...returning to his room the student loses most of the benefit of his exercise. The expense of keeping the gymnasium lighted and heated an hour longer could not be much; it seems a pity to save money in such a way. The benefit derived from it would be many-fold the expense, especially at the present time, when the students are working hard in preparation for the midyears, and need above all things the benefit of sound sleep...