Word: rapids
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...candidates for the 'varsity nine will probably be materially reduced in number at the beginning of next week in order to make rapid progress easier. The freshman candidates still number about thirty-five...
...from the silver states but from the general depression and hard times throughout the West and the feeling among the farmers that in some way this bill will remove the pressure. The real difficulty in the West is not a scarcity of money but the tendency to too rapid development; too great increase in production results, of course, in prices being forced down. The silver agitation is purely an inflation movement and must be followed by all the consequences of inflation. The possibilities of maintaining gold and silver on a par with each other depends not upon the quantity...
...CHANDLER, Cor. Main and Inman Sts., Cambridgeport.Important Notice to Sportsmen.The rapid growth of amateur sport in this country and its wholesome influence have created a demand for an exponent in sympathy with the requirements of those interested in its welfare. Appreciating the need of such interpretation, Messrs. Harper and Brothers have decided to establish a department in Harper's Weekly, entitled "Amateur Sport," to begin with the current number. The department will be in no sense of the word reportorial, but, following the high standard of Harper publications, will endeavor to keep sportsmen in touch with current questions, furnish them...
...tank and go through the full motion on the fixed seat, the 'varsity crew are at last showing some signs of crew style and may now be criticized with a little reason. The crew is unquestionably hard at work in the first place, and the candidates are all showing rapid improvement though the crew is rather behindhand at present. The men are, on the whole, raw, and have had to be coached greatly on the rudiments. At this time of the year crews are frequently rowing with sliding seats, but this year the men are just beginning to break their...
...same. This quality is in most cases disagreeable, the few agreeable or consonant intervals having vibration ratios which can be expressed by the first five integers. Helmholtz has sought to explain this remarkable fact by the use of the same principle of the disagreeableness of the strong and rapid pulsations of sound formed by very near tones, which in his theory of Timbre accounts for the aesthetic superiority of notes with a few integral overtones to all others. He has shown that in all of the intervals called dissonant, some of the partial tones of one note must fall near...