Word: rigid
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...real kindness to 1906 and all subsequent classes to have a discussion of this reform, and if it seems desirable, to urge its adoption. President Derby tells me that the Princeton system is very much like the one proposed here, and it seems a great improvement over the rigid system we follow at Harvard. C. H. SCOVELL
...inches; bow, 7 inches; stern, 6 1-2 inches. The shell resembles that built by Davy for the winning crew in 1899, but has several new features. The stern is to be deeper than usual, so that no fin is needed and the keel will be made very rigid by means of trusses supported by brass bolts. Hollow steel out-riggers which are much lighter and stronger than the ordinary kind will be used. The shell will weigh between 250 and 260 pounds. It will be finished about June 1. Two sets of oars for the boat are being made...
...ideals are contrasted with and opposed by rigid facts. This contrast has been emphasized by modern students and this emphasis has lead to investigation, which has proved the old forms of natural theology unsound. No impression has been made upon the assumption of the supremacy of ideals; for history has proved the power of ideals to hold their own with facts...
Great difficulties were encountered in obtaining the cast as it was necessary for the subject to stand in a rigid position with the muscles tense for twenty minutes at a time, and 180 trials, covering a period of several months, were made before the experiments met with success. Sandow's engagement at Keith's terminates this week and it is expected that the statue will be sent to the University immediately afterwards. It will probably be placed in the Gymnasium...
These liquor monopolies might be either state or local corporations. But while such state corporations controlling the present traffic have many advantages, they are more rigid and less adapted to local conditions than local corporations. These local corporations, in which the profit is turned over partly to the state and partly to the community, adopted at the option of the voters in any given district, have in Norway and Sweden proved remarkably successful in reducing intemperance. There is every reason to believe that in this country also they would furnish the best possible method of dealing with the liquor problem...