Word: locked
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...what a lecturer says, the use of a pair of large and hardy feet (organs indispensable in many emergencies) is absurd. Men of impulsive natures with frequent and acute temptations to stamp in lectures, should practice self-restraint. If they must give vent to their feelings let them lock themselves in their rooms after the lecture is over, and calling to mind all the humorous incidents of the hour, stamp to their hearts' content. This will not annoy the lecturer nor the grown-up members of the course, and will afford equally good exercise for the pedal extremities...
...undertaking, and De Lesseps, the French engineer who so successfully superintended the building of the Suez Canal, had been obliged to give up in despair. The location of the canal once decided upon, engineers were a long time determining the kind of a canal to be built. The lock type was finally adopted for many reasons, one of the most important of which was the presence of the Charges river, which with its frequent floods made a sea-level canal out of the question. The greatest problem of all to be solved was that of sanitation, the problem that...
...defended the present lock canal system, saying that a sea level waterway was impracticable owing to the great depth of cuts thereby necessitated and the consequent danger of overwhelming sliders, the difference in tide level between the two oceans, and last but not least, the great river which would have to be cared for and which now furnishes water for high levels, water power, and electricity,--the last for towing ships through the canal and for running the broad-gauge railway left by the old De Lesseps Company...
...Kallen '03, of the department of Philosophy, will give the ninth of a series of twelve lectures on "Pragmatism" In Emerson F this afternoon at 4.30 oçlock. the special subject of today's lecture will be "Beauty." It will be open to members of the University and of Radcliffe Collage...