Word: heights
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...large space in the northeast corner of the room is devoted to hydraulic machinery. A stand-pipe five feet in diameter and twenty-two feet in height extends above the level of the third floor. This is for experimenting with the flow of water through apertures of different sizes. Water will be pumped into the pipe from a cistern and will flow through an aperture, provided with nozzels of various sizes, into a tank. At the other end of the tank there will be a weir, and the flow of water over this can be measured. Then the water will...
...Astronomical Observatory for eleven months ending September 30, 1894, has just been published. The most important events of the year have been the practical trial of the Bruce telescope and the successful operation for several months of the Boyden meteorological station on the summit of the Misti, at a height of 19,200 feet. Unfortunately, early in September the shelter containing the instruments was found to have been broken into and a number of the instruments carried off. Apparently the robbery was committed by two Indians. The property stolen would of course be of no use to the thieves...
Professor Carpenter spoke first of the theory of Pythagoras, who believed that souls existed separately in the air, and that bodily life was a fall from a diviner height; that after the soul had been purified in hades it returned again to its former divine life. Plato, he said, taught in his philosophy that true life was a continual ascent, and that beyond the grave there was a world where purity and truth were not hampered by human incompleteness. In spite of metaphysical difficulties Plato found clear answers for ethics and religion...
...York City, was elected captain of the team for the coming year. Thorne was fitted for college in New York. He has played on the 'varsity eleven for two years as halfback, and will next year play fullback. He is twenty-three years old, six feet in height, and weighs 175 pounds...
Gierarch, fullback, has never played football before this season. Age 18, height 5 ft. 9 in., weight...