Word: normal
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...from the measurements of the body must have realized the need of some guide to show not only the relative standing of one individual as compared with another, but also the relation of every part of the individual to every other part. The same man may be above the normal in one measurement, and below in another. The extent of the variation is the desirable thing to know. In one instance this variation might not exceed the physical limits; in another it might result in a deformity. These differences are but vaguely suggested when expressed in figures...
...foreseen, any more than the private individual. But were any road to be rebuilt, experience bought at an excess cost of $30,000 per mile would show how construction and even maintenance expenses might be reduced so as to come within the limit of $30,000 allowed as normal average cost of construction per mile...
...brought in whether willingly or not. It is needless to add that such a system in college is neither desirable nor possible. The ends for which colleges are established, namely, the training of the mind and character would be defeated by the consciousness to the students that the normal attitude of a faculty towards them was one of suspicion and distrust...
Sanders Theatre was well filled last evening at the meeting in the interest of the negro and Indian education. The meeting was opened with music by the Hampton Quartette, which is composed of students of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute. Dr. McKenzie made a somewhat lengthy introductory address, in which he said that the institute, whose representatives were to address the meeting, was founded on a principle and for a purpose essentially the same as our own university. He was followed by W. H. Daggs, a graduate of the school, who spoke of the advance of the negro since...
...training for the Mott Haven team, and the candidates for the nine are necessarily still limited to their work in the cage. Great preparations are being made for the winter games, which will occur in about two weeks. Dr. W. G. Anderson, the president of the Brooklyn Normal School for Physical Training, has been secured as instructor for all who will enter the games. Dr. Anderson is a young man, a college graduate, and has charge of the physical instruction in a large number of schools in New York and vicinity. Owing to his other engagements he will be able...