Word: rules
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Other men discovered electricity; others magnetism. They phrased mathematical laws which explained in a rule-of-thumb way, electrical and magnetic action. James Clerk Maxwell (1831-79) put these laws most precisely?and made electricity and magnetism nearly the same thing. Maxwell's laws made possible electric light and power, telephones, radios...
Iselin, who is Canadian squash champion, is entering the singles tournament to conform with a rule passed last year by the National Squash Racquets Association providing that at least one member of each team must enter in the singles competition and that this man may not represent his team in the team matches. In the tournament he will be faced by the leading players of the country including H. N. Rawlins '27, present national champion, and J. L. Pool '28, both of whom captained the University team while Seniors at Harvard...
...Hill has gone credit from all keen educators for adopting Professor Wood's new forms, for being the first U. S. preparatory school to apply the hard yet merciful rule of college-education for the fittest...
Although it is announced that there is to be no change in the present language requirements the new rule cannot but lead to a different situation for men in college. For some time a reading knowledge of Latin has been accepted in place of one of the two modern languages, and in fulfillment of this the Cp 4 admission examination has been accepted in place of the reading knowledge test in college. Now that four years of French or German can be offered before admission, a logical step would permit all the reading knowledge requirements to be anticipated by good...
...Herod on the part of the men whose "semi-idiotic obtuseness" he lampoons. The "extra-thick coats of indifference", which he says are a "lot of hooey", will at least protect his victims from the shower of garbage loosed by his glorification of the exception in place of the rule. The only men who will even feel embarrassed are those whom he pictures at luncheon in a prominent undergraduate club--he suggests the "Soup Club"--under such names as "Shock-Haired" and "Serious-Face". They will wonder if they realty said what he says they said...