Word: properity
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...proposed to build a gymnasium 75x100 feet in size, two stories high, of brick with stone trimmings, and a gable roof supported by arches. On the first floor it is proposed to have the bath, dressing, rowing and trophy rooms, and on the second floor the gymnasium proper, with a gallery for an exercise track...
...mould. This disk, which by the way is called the "tool," is placed on the glass, and by a simple mechanical device is made to rotate upon it. When the grinding is completed by the use of this tool and grinding-powder, and the lens reduced to the proper convex form, the polishing tool is applied. This is made of a wooden disk covered with coal tar, the tar being cut up into blocks on the side which touches the lens. The surface of the tar is coated, in turn, with bees-wax, which, by mild heat and pressure upon...
...those who played foot-ball a year or more ago. This would leave the election of next year's captain to the class elevens of last fall. Because they represent the foot-ball interests of Harvard for this year, we think them more competent to select a proper captain. But whatever system of election is adopted, we believe that the foot-ball men, and Harvard men at large, will give to the successful candidate their heartiest support and good wishes...
...several courses he pursues. We must, therefore, lay down as a general rule for every examination, that it shall represent, in its method and character, the nature of the subject on which it is held. Then the examination will be a true test, and its results will constitute the proper basis for the university's certificates. No matter what combination of courses a student pursues, he will be credited with just the kind of acknowledgment which his work demands...
...deal with other subjects, as Natural History. Now, theses writing tends to become necessary in just the degree in which written examinations tend to become useless, - in proportion to the advent of a more general character in our studies. Wherever, then, theses became useful, they would form a proper test; and I believe that they will become the chief means of examination for this very reason. But here, again, a coarse scale of marking is absolutely necessary; only an approximately definite mark could be given for the year's work, as any corrector of theses will certify. But the test...