Word: resultants
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...often that we have occasion to reply to such effrontery as appears in the current Brunonian. The following is taken from an editorial: "There has of late been a good deal of discussion as to what should be compulsory, and what elective, in a college. As a result, some institutions have drawn the reins even tighter than before, while others, notably Harvard, will confer a degree upon almost any person who enrolls his name upon the college books, and dwells for four years within the sacred precincts of learning...
PHILOSOPHY. (Including Ethics and Aesthetics). 1. A criticism of Shaftesbury's Theory of Ethics. (See Shaftesbury's "Inquiry concerning Virtue.") 2. The Philosophy and Limitations of Painting. 3. The use of the pointed Arch in Gothic architecture. Was the pointed arch an importation from the East, or a result of the constructive exigencies of vaulting? 4. A comparison of Titian and Rembrandt as colorists. 5. The employment of figure sculpture as an adjunct to architecture in Italy and France respectively. 6. Has Psychology profited to any appreciable extent by the discoveries made in the anatomy and physiology of the brain...
...present. Tech. got the drop by two inches, and gained another inch on one of Ewald's first attempts to heave, '88 did not regain any of this lost ground notwithstanding her phenomenal rope team, and Tech. had 3 inches at the end of the five minutes. The result is due to the extreme pluck of the Tech. men and the slowness and inexperience of the '88 anchor. The Harvard team was as follows: Ewald, Chase, Purdon and Pease...
...next event, putting the shot, was also a disappointment to the Harvard men. Chamberlain, Harvard, '86, having two professionals, J. D. Ryan and J. Cunningham against him. These latter men were allowed to throw the shot while Chamberlain made a square put. The result, as was natural, was in favor of the professionals. The records were Ryan, 38 feet 3 inches; Cunningham, 38 feet; Chamberlain, 36 feet 5 inches...
...health, reduce the amount of carbon which he has been in the habit of introducing into his system. Fats and alcohol should be tabooed. The need of fresh air in all exercise is very great, and this is the great objection to all in-door exercise. The actual results of impure air arising from too many people in one place, is shown by the sufferings of those confined in the "Black Hole" of Calcutta. Huxley has computed that a man needs 23,000 cubic feet of air every day, that his excretions of carbonic acid may not pollute...