Word: idea
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...made of steel strips laid across the seat bracers from one outrigger to the other. Since it is not so much tenacity that is needed but firmness, Mr. Davy thinks he will gain in lightness and lose nothing in utility by using wood instead of steel. The idea of this cross-bracing is simply this: a shell being made so extremely light it must depend mainly for its strength on the even balance of the strains to which it is subjected. The problem of making a sculling toat is simplified by the fact that the outriggers are exactly opposite each...
Students in Political Sclence and Economics have an opportunity to get a vivid idea of the sentiments of the workingman in the concrete and the way his mind works from the "Talks" which are being given at the Wells Memorial Building, 987 Washington St., Boston. These talks are attended largely by workingmen. There is a principal speaker, and some one especially appointed to answer him. A general discussion then follows. The aim of the chairman, Mr. Joseph Lee, is to have as many points of view represented as possible, and he extends an invitation to Harvard men who can thus...
...things that have interested him as a Harvard undergraduate, during a year just closing. The publication will be in the form of an attractive cloth, or leather bound book, in size not less than 9x6 inches. Its illustrations will be reproductions of photographs by the best photogravure processes. An idea of the matter to be offered may obtained by the following partial list: cuts (reduced from cabinet photographs) of every member of the graduating class, cuts of the 'varsity athletic teams, of the Glee club and Pierian Sodality, of the new buildings, of deceased instructors, of the '90 Phi Beta...
Last evening in Sever 11, Hon. David A. Wells delivered the first of a series of talks on "Taxation." The speaker said that the provident idea that taxation was necessarily an evil was an error that could be eradicated only by careful study of the science of taxation. It is hard to define taxation, but the following are perhaps the general principles which govern scientific taxation. (1) No taxes should be levied without representation: (2) taxes should be levied for but one purpose-the support of the government; (3) taxes should be distributed equally. Taxes levied in the Middle Ages...
Little need be said of a play so familiar to theatre goers as Bronson Howard's "Henrietta" which was given at the Hollis last evening. The confusion of the three Henriettas is an amusing idea. and the play will serve to pass an evening more or less pleasantly. But the plot is essentially bad, and many of the scenes are simply and unnecessarily disagreable. Robson's acting is as amusing as ever, and the same as ever. There is nothing new in his conception of Bertie Vanalstyne, and perhaps his admirers will be glad of it. The rest...