Word: modeling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...February number of the Forum, Professor Francis G. Peabody contributes a thoughtful article on "A Case of Good City Government." Dresden is the model which is described. The first instinct of an American citizen is to act; the first instinct of a German citizen is to obey and as far as concerns the essentials of good city government, one feels that in the best German cities one has the most substantial administration of the world. The German method offers a contrast to that of the United States since the former is government for the sake of the city...
...Yale Boat Club has contracted with Waters of Troy for a racing shell for this year's 'varsity crew. The boat will be 60 feet long, 24 inches wide and 9 inches deep amidships. It will be made upon a new model, which, Mr. Waters thinks, will increase its speed...
...Mathieu's Torture Post" is a pathetic character sketch of a Paris painter who in his feverish enthusiasm for art allows his only friend, a little fellow much younger than himself, to hang from a post, head down, in a torturing position in order that he may have a model for the masterpiece which he is painting. This torture naturally kills the boy by degrees, although the end does not come till Mathieu comes home with the news that he has won the medaille d'honneur. The story as a whole suggests Guy de Maupassant. Although the idea...
...foot ball game, if two were played annually. But Yale insisted that only one should be played annually, and that in New York. The negotiations therefore fell through, as such an arrangement would clearly be unfair both to the undergraduates and to the Boston graduates. In track athletics a model arrangement has been made with Yale for future contests, and Yale is allowed to name the place of meeting every other year...
...woman as much as she could lead a calf about. With a stronger tide of settlement came stronger lights of settlement and land was purchased by goods or by the sword. In 927 a Norseman drew up a land law or constitution for Iceland, taking as a model certain laws of Norway. This established an assembly which met once a year and discussed questions of all kinds. The session lasted a fortnight. If the members could not attend they paid a tax which went to pay the expenses of those who could attend. There were three judicial courts which...