Word: old
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...certain rather old-fashioned Corliss steam engine requires 2.6 pounds of coal per horsepower per hour. Let us allow three, to take dynamo and transmission losses into consideration...
...such a course is it not true that the University would be merely renewing a very old Harvard tradition? At any event, the story has often been heard that the time of the call to morning prayers was determined there, some generations ago, by loud ringing of the chapel bell at the precise moment when the undergraduate, to whom the duty was assigned, found it possible to read, by the advancing light of day, the print of a newspaper officially approved for this delicate test. That was daylight-saving with a vengeance. --Boston Transcript...
Pennsylvania's old rival in all sports, Cornell, has started indoor crew practice and will send two boats on for the Childs Cup race, according to those in charge of rowing at the University of Pennsylvania. It is hoped that Yale and the University will send informal boats to the regatta. Columbia also is booked to compete...
...need of reality, independence and old-fashioned devotion was emphasized by Mr. Eddy in his remarks. "We must have reality of faith, conviction that the hand of God has marked out a path for us to follow," he said. "We cannot tell what may happen. It is even conceivable that we may lose this war, and that is a thing for you to ponder well. Yet even so, great things have come from periods of loss, of chaos and of defeat...
...third need of the present day, according to Mr. Eddy, is a good, old-fashioned, whole-souled devotion. "Nothing can undermine the character of a nation more than emphasis on living," he concluded. "Be willing to devote your lives to the cause. Above all, don't be unmoved, don't be 'fed up' on the war. If your soul is not daily torn apart by this war, it is to your damnation...