Word: power
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...constitutionality of such a system is questionable. - (a) Power not specifically granted in constitution. - (b) Such power not easily inferred...
...looking to the same end. Harvard suggests having trial heats run off in the morning so that there shall be only a semi-final and final in the dashes, hurdles and bicycle race, and only a final in the quarter. Harvard also proposes that the referee be given power to have the half-mile run in heats when the number of entries requires it. Harvard's half-milers suffered last year by being placed in the third row of starters, which proved equal to a handicap of many yards. Pennsylvania's idea of cutting down the time of the meeting...
...based wholly upon past work, but general ability will also be a requisite. Hence membership can hardly fail to be a much sought for honor. The following committee from the class was elected to act in conjunction with a committee from the Faculty to look into the matter with power to act: J. W. Roe of Brooklyn, I. W. Greer of Central Village, Conn., and F. E. Newton of Buckingham, Conn...
...chairmen of the civil, electrical and mechanical departments will be elected at special meetings of each of the sections. There were three papers read at the meeting: "Revolving Turrets," by Professor Hollis; "Building of Concrete-Iron Bridges." by Mr. A. N. Johnson; "Recent Changes in Electrical Power Plants," by A. W. K. Billings '95. Professor Hollis announced that Mr. Clemens Herschel, a graduate of the Engineering Department, would give a lecture on "Roman Aqueducts" Friday, March 1, in the Jefferson Physical Laboratory. Mr. Herschel is well known both in Europe and America for his work in hydraulics...
...importance which he placed in belief in God. What was meant by faith in God? Dr. Martineau said that it was hard for a man to avoid belief in God honestly, but that it was also hard to hold faith worthily. The sense of God was the greatest power of which man is possessed; faith was the appropriation and possession...