Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...week off, it behooves us to make a few remarks about it. There are over forty names on the book so far. This number must be raised to fifty, before hopes of a dinner can be entertained. But let it be remembered that fifty is a minimum, not a maximum number. What class spirit does an attendance of fifty out of two hundred and fifty show? The number of those who attend ought to be at least one hundred! The success of the '87 dinner of last year will not allow that there should be any less interest...
...evil effect of tobacco smoking seems to be more pronounced the earlier in the day the weed is used. People of sedentary habits should reduce their allowance of tobacco to the minimum. Angina pectoris is said to be caused by smoking. Evil effects are often very decidedly exhibited on the employees in tobacco factories...
What is wanted is some system that will do away with the long, hard "grinds." Of course this can be done either by lowering the minimum mark or by abolishing examinations altogether, neither of which things at present seems advisable...
...Lawton will lecture on the laws governing the intersection of curves in one plane. The subjects for general discussion are the following. 1. Series for determining the ratio 3,141392. 2. To circumscribe about a given quadrilateral the ellipse of a minimum. 3. A uniform chain hangs with its lower end just touching a horizontal, inelastic table. The chain is let fall. Prove that, at any instant, the pressure on the table is three times the weight of the coil already on the table...
...exacting. It has required more hours of work than the average course, to do the required reading, not to mention the general outside work which all ambitious students wish to do. The changes inaugurated for this year have increased the demands formerly made on the student. To do the minimum amount of reading on the average lecture and make notes of the matter read, requires from two to three hours, and the student has still his special report to prepare and the general readings to attend to. As but few copies of the books in which reading is required...