Word: planes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Plane Geometry...
...figure six feet high and weighing 150 pounds rests with one end on a smooth horizontal plane and the other against a smooth vertical wall with which it makes an angle of 30 degrees. What is its tension? That is to say, how tight is it? What is its centre of gravity...
...detailed one, confessedly containing little philosophy, but well stored with facts and annals which are interesting and valuable. We believe that the story of the foundation of the order, has never before been made public. The sketch is written with an enthusiasm which, leading the reader to a plane of idealism, appeals to the sympathetic nature, arousing it to a better appreciation of the ills of the "working men." The article should be read by all who have any desire to express themselves on the History of the Knights of Labor. Mr. Wright should be congratulated in producing something that...
...advance which the college authorities have made in the matter of compulsory worship is the important change in the marking system. The abolition of percentages and individual ranking must be a subject of congratulation to all students, for we trust that the undergraduates here in Cambridge have reached that plane of scholarship where men believe that knowledge is the aim of college life, and not that knowledge is the means whereby a high rank may be obtained. The former system of credits was notoriously unfair, for who, if he be a man of insight, will undertake to say that...
...work of the following courses: Required Physics and Chemistry, Physics B, Physics 2, and either one other course in Physics or Mathematics 2. The second condition is passing with distinction a special examination in the Principals of Physics, the Absolute System of Physical Measurement, and the Elementary Principles of Plane Trigonometry and Analytic Geometry. Course B may be omitted by those who have passed satisfactorily the Elective Admission Examination in Physics...