Word: phenomenon
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...notable speech President Eliot spoke of freedom as the condition necessary to the progress of society, and pointed out its dangers and its opportunities in college life. A striking phenomenon of our day, he said, is the distrust of freedom that is manifesting itself in all walks of life. It is especially manifest in our educational institutions, for there is no moment when a young man is in a position of more freedom than when he leaves home and enters College. He can use or abuse that freedom, he can use it for good or bad purposes. It is there...
PHYSICAL COLLOQUIUM. A Phenomenon of lonisation. The Dispersion of Sodium Vapor. Professor Trowbridge and Dr. Lyman. Jefferson Physical Laboratory...
...accomplishing its purposes, the members never interfere. But when the members cannot obtain what they desire at the store, and are not satisfied with the treatment they receive there, they can, under the present system, come to the meetings of the Society and make their influence felt. this phenomenon which exists in all Co-operative Societies is one of the greatest advantages of co-operation in business. A revolution, however, such as the advocates of the new plan appear to be apprehensive of, has never occurred and could not occur under our present system because few of the members...
...result of the powerful electrical discharges the aqueous vapor was released from the walls of the spectrum tubes. From this investigation it was concluded that oxygen does exist in the atmosphere of the sun. It was also found by a similar study of aqueous vapor in the X-ray phenomenon that, probably by varying the conditions of the strength of the electrical discharges and the condition of the vapor, X ray photographs can be secured of tendons and muscles of the human body, together with photographs of the skeleton. Interesting results were obtained in regard to the phenomena of wireless...