Word: hollises
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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The Hollis Hall baseball team has been organized and is ready to meet other dormitory nines. A. C. Dearborn Gr. has been elected captain and J. W. Peck '96 manager.
A machine which promises to be of much practical benefit to Harvard rowing has recently been invented by Professor Hollis of the Engineering department. The machine registers autographically the amount of energy expended by an oarsman in the various parts of the stroke. The autographic reproduction on paper of the...
The idea of such an invention was suggested to Professor Hollis by an appliance which is used to test the action of steam engines. Still the knowledge which Professor Hollis has brought to bear in making his invention cannot be said to be exclusively theoretical, because his extensive experience in...
The machine which has been constructed, is now in the new Engineering building, but it has been seen by very few men. It was constructed by Professor Hollis, not only for its possible practical value to rowing interests but also for its scientific interest to the students in engineering.
The practical value of the experiments which it is hoped the machine will give must depend entirely upon the extent to which the knowledge gained by the experiments can be used in perfecting the stroke of the individual, and of the entire crew. It is not enough to discover by...