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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...meantime the authorities are taking practical steps toward improvement of the courses and of the methods of instruction. A number of conferences have recently taken place at the School, to obtain reliable advice upon the subject...
This was the second attempt made by Professor Trowbridge to obtain the desired effect with a Crooke's tube. The first attempt, made a few minutes before, was partly successful. The ordinary sixty-volt alternating current used for lighting the building was sent through the primary of an ordinary coil. The resistance of the primary of this coil is one-tenth of an ohm, and of the secondary 6000 ohms. The current through the primary was not stronger than 15 ampheres. The current from the secondary of the first coil was sent through the primary of 25 turns...
...freshman crew candidates were unable to obtain any practice on the machines. Their work consisted of a run to Porter's Station and back. Thomson was unable to be present so Mills...
...success which Harvard won last year should be repeated it the cooperation of all the whist players in the University is once secured. If every man who loves the game and can afford the time will enter he will not only obtain a great deal of pleasure out of the tournament, but he will do his part in developing good material for the intercollegiate matches. As has been announced in the CRIMSON, many of the most experienced players have left the University and their places have got to be filled by the men who prove themselves best in the tournament...
...becomes obscured, teams are selected not from the large body of men who are fond of athletics, but only from the smaller number who are in sympathy with those who happen to be in control at any time and with the particular policy by which the latter seek to obtain victory and honor. If on the other hand the calls for candidates for our teams asked every one to come out who was fond of baseball, or football, or rowing, as the case might be, and were always responded to accordingly, there would not only be a large amount...