Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Analysis and discussion of the fundamental facts and theories of the mathematical and physical sciences in the light of their history. Comparative study of the main sources. No advanced scientific knowledge is required, the idea being to study each question from its very beginning...
...committee which has been working on plans for a swimming pool in the Union has announced that the idea must be given up for the present, owing to the increased cost of the pool. The first estimate gave $16,000 as the probable cost; $10,000 of this was available from the gymnasium fund raised several years ago. To raise the additional $6,000 would have been a comparatively easy matter, but when the announcement was made that the pool would cost more than $25,000, the committee decided that it was too much of a proposition to assume just...
...committee which has been working on plans for a swimming pool in the Union has announced that the idea must be given up for the present, owing to the increased cost of the pool. The first estimate gave $16,000 as the probable cost; $10,000 of this was available from the gymnasium fund raised several years ago. To raise the additional $6,000 would have been a comparatively easy matter, but when the announcement was made that the pool would cost more than $25,000, the committee decided that it was too much of a proposition to assume just...
...limitations of space in the little building which thus far has been at our disposal prevented even a moderately satisfactory realization of this idea. The new building goes a long way toward its fulfilment. Indeed, the genius of its architect, Professor Bestelmeyer of Berlin, has made this building in itself a condensed epitome of the course which art has taken in Middle Europe during the last nine hundred years. Without in the least laacking an organic unity or monumental impressiveness, the exterior of this building shows a rich diversity of structural detail, suggesting rather than copying motifs of numerous styles...
...real purpose of this lighting, if it is done at all, is to enable the football work to be done later in the afternoon on the days when the darkness comes on early, with the idea not in any way to increase the amount of work given to the players, but to advance it to a later hour, especially in November, and thus cause less interference with the afternoon lectures and laboratory work of the players...