Word: leaded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Many improvements have recently been made in the rowing tank at Yale. The old barge, which has been used in the tank for the last two years, became unfit for service, and, as a substitute, a long box, properly weighted with lead, has been constructed, containing the slides and appurtenances of a shell. All the corners in the tank have been rounded so that the water is now forced to move as in the Harvard tank-in two currents, one on each side of the shell...
...increase of sincerity. These effects were illustrated by the lives of Louis Agassiz, Jeffries Whyman, and Asa Gray. What can be the possible dangers in a method which possesses such marked advantages over the methods which it has displaced? Is it not likely that the very extreme specialization may lead to too contrasted views in regard to other fields of inquiry than the one in which the student is wholly occupied? Is it not possible that such specialization may narrow his sympathies? Is it not shown by Mr. Darwin's autobiography that the aesthetic sense may be blunted...
...held a meeting last evening in U. 13. It was expected that Mr. Charles Francis Adams, Jr., would address the meeting, but owing to an unforeseen engagement, he was unable to fulfill his appointment, and Professor Taussing took his place. Prof. Taussig read a paper on the causes which lead to the seeming incongruity of freight rates. It is probable that Mr. Adams will lecture before the club next Tuesday evening. The following men were elected members from '89: Nields, J. S. Stone, Surbridge and Paul...
...scientific expedition is to be sent from Princeton next summer to collect fossil skeletons for the museum and to gather specimens for the benefit of the departments of geology and paleontology. Professors Scott and Osborn will lead the expedition and will be assisted by eight students, chosen from the junior and senior classes. If there are more than eight applications, the assistants will be selected by a competitive examination...
...immense crowd gathered on the 27th of August to witness the great event. The two boats came out about five o'clock in the afternoon, and at the word from the starter the crews were off, Harvard rowing 46 to Oxford's 40. Harvard at once took the lead and held it for two miles, but it was then evident that Oxford's reserve power was much greater, as she soon lessened the distance between the boats, and took a good lead which she kept to the finish, crossing the line six seconds ahead of the Harvard crew. Although defeated...