Word: rigidity
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...width. The westerly wing of the building is to be used for special students and professors conducting experiments of great delicacy, and requiring the greatest accuracy. Every precaution will be taken to ensure the complete isolation of the piers carrying the sensitive instruments. Iron in any shape will be rigidly excluded from the rooms where experiments in magnetism are conducted. The central portion will be used for recitation rooms for students and for cabinets containing instruments. The easterly wing will contain a lecture room, a laboratory, and cabinets for storing instruments. Above the basement the eastern wing will be divided...
...colonial college, the lecturer continued, was a religious and educational garrison, founded on English modes and governed by rigid rules. Punch and "flip" were forbidden, and any student out after 9 P. M. was "adjudged guilty of whatsoever disorder might occur in the town that night." At Harvard Mrs. Foster was made stocking-mender at a salary of pound 12. Students were allowed a pound of meat and a pint of beer at dinner, and a half-pint of beer at night. For supper they could choose between a half-pint of milk and a biscuit. They were given clean...
...rows short and does not pull his hands in high enough. His back and shoulder work is fair, while as a general thing his arms are kept straight and rigid...
...take today's work only as a promise, by no means as a realization of '86's full strength. Fall meetings never allow that steady and regular training which is possible in the May meetings ; we have barely escaped the hot summer months, when even the most rigid athletes fall off in their exercise, and we have not enjoyed the long winter months spent in the gymnasium at the weights and on the track. Therefore we take occasion to warn any would-be competitor in the spring sports from discouragement at his failure or success this fall, when these hindrances...
...undoubtedly due to the feeling on the part of the college that the possibility of the successful termination of such an attempt is very remote, and that an attempt to secure their admission into the college proper would be still more unavailing. This confidence is undoubtedly well grounded. The rigid conservatism of the government of Harvard University has been so repeatedly proved that the danger of the adoption of so radical a scheme as that of co-education for many years yet is very remote indeed. But the vote on the recent proposition is very significant. That the more liberal...