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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...have failed to be impressed in some degree by the mathematical precision displayed by every particle in earth, air and water. A few thoughts on this invariable order will not, however, fully comprehend its grandeur. It is not at first easy to realize that every law, from highest to lowest is perfectly fulfilled in the physical structure of the stars. To many men it is not sufficient to say that of course the laws of nature always hold, and that force will always produce the same effects. These men will answer that because they may spend a life time...
...Booths hopes by a series of tests of willingness and capacity to drain off the lowest tenth of the poor of London, and in this way to relieve the strain on those who are just able to gain a livelihood. He has at his command two important factors; 1st, his intense dramatic religion, 2d, his military organization. Allowing for the incalculable power of the first, supplemented by the effectiveness of the second, his work remains of gigantic proportions. He would remove from the city this wretched class, Christian, Pagan, Jew, young, old, without discrimination; he would put them on farms...
...Noise. The physical cause of a note is a regularly periodic air vibration, irregular vibration causing noise. To this difference in their origin is to be referred the aesthetic superiority of notes to noises. The pitch of a note is higher as the vibration causing it is faster. The lowest pitch is produced by about 16 vibrations per second, the highest by about 40,000. In the next lecture we shall study the forms in which pitch presents itself to the ear in the notes of the voice and instruments...
...done 10 ft. 6 1-2 in., while W. Curry, Vi., and Hoag and Wheelwright, R. L., have all done 9 ft. 6 in. When it is considered that Leavitt '89, Crane '90 and Mason '91, are the only Harvard men, past or present, who have ever beaten this lowest figure, it will be seen that the quality of the entries is by on means...
...from 36.8 to 31.8. This shows that the upper classmen not only take more pains to avoid failure in their course, but are less satisfied with medium work. Almost 60 per cent, of the Seniors' marks were included in the highest grades, and less than 9 in the two lowest: while 39 and 24 were the two corresponding figures for the Freshman marks. The extra courses are less regular in the distribution of marks, but show the same growth of seriousness in work. The A's and B's are moke than doubled, and the lower marks fall off proportionately...