Word: periodicities
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...here and it is certain not only to be exceedingly entertaining but also of great value. Few members of the University have any real acquaintance with the history of Harvard during the last forty years. Every one of course is familiar with the great events that have marked that period, but very few know well the story of the gradual changes that have taken place as the horizon of the College has widened, both as regards the student life and the government of the University. The men that have been chosen to speak on the last three decades of Harvard...
...exhibition room at the Agassiz Museum, showing the life of the Mesozoic or Secondary period will today be thrown open to the public. In popular parlance this period is known as the "Age of Reptiles," and accordingly in this room are placed a number of typical representatives of the huge Dinosaurs and other strange reptilian forms that populated the earth at that period. The central attraction is a magnificent cast of an Iguanodon (the only one in this country) after the original in the Brussels Museum. This was a creature of gigantic dimensions, measuring at least thirty-five feet...
Beside these more notable additions many other interesting specimens-both casts and originals-are on exhibition. It was the late Professor Louis Agassiz's plan to arrange the exhibits in the Museum so as to show the succession of life from the earliest periods to our own time. For this purpose a room has been set apart for each great period. Although the collections are not yet complete, it is the intention to make them so, when it will be possible to study the manifold changes and developments in the life of the globe...
...physical power of each man. There should be no resistance to overcome, the weak parts should first be strengthened, and a sufficient number of muscles should be exercised with energy so as to stimulate the heart and lungs and increase the respiration and circulation. Since a latent period is needful for the proper nutrition of the muscles rest should precede every period of exercise. Furthermore, exercise should be of such a composite nature as to bring out the cooperation and coordination of the muscles. Hence the indirect method of training is the best. The all round development acquired in this...
...Life of Washington, and a history of the United States, for reading; a wooden fire shovel scraped clean and a coal for writing materials, enabled his eager intelligence to make a better start than many a more favored boy achieves in the best schools. And after a somewhat florid period of youth, his style of writing and speaking became extraordinarily simple and impressive. Lincoln's practice as a country lawyer, his repeated terms in the Legislature of Illinois and even his three years in Congress brought him little reputation; but all these experiences of course were unconscious preparation...