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...make it a grim and serious business. For the general body of undergraduates, football is a cohesive force and represents dramatically the ideals of the college; but present overemphasis tends to give it a false importance which-distorts the students' sense of collegiate values. For alumni, football is a magnet, drawing graduates back to the college and serving to renew their interest in the affairs of the college; but present overemphasis tends to confine their interest to the maintenance of a winning football team, and to crowd out of their minds completely matters of larger educational importance; and here...
...body's circuit. Dr. Einthoven's device records the fluctuations of this current by means of two wires of quartz, so fine that they are invisible even under a microscope, unless thrown into relief by light against a dark background. These wires are threaded across the magnetic field formed between the polar ends of an electromagnet. In each pole of the magnet is screwed a microscope, one lending light, the other enlargement. Rubber manacles are placed over the wrists of the patient. Under each manacle is a salt pad (electric conductor) from which a wire runs, bearing...
...sketches themselves at times are rather forced to beat a dishpan to excite humor. But Winnie Lightner, abetted by the insouciant Will Mahoney and the boisterous Patricola, carries them along by dint of magnet ic personality, sometimes called high animal spirits. And the revue contains two of the best travesties on darky melodies ever perpetrated...
Visitors to the Engineering section of the Exhibition at Wembley received a sudden shock when their umbrellas and purses and other articles containing steel were torn from their persons by an invisible force. The thief was a giant magnet weighing 6,720 pounds...
...spinthariscope, by which the "Brownian movement," or perpetual ac tivity of the molecules, can be seen. ¶ The formation of crystals under polarized light, showing how the world would look if we had the power of seeing by ultraviolet rays. ¶ Faraday's classic magnet apparatus side by side with the latest developments of radio. The visitor can control the exhaustion of a vacuum tube, and the beautiful effects of electrical discharge through the rarefield gas. ¶ The famous dinosaur eggs discovered by the third Asiatic expedition of the American Museum of Natural History...