Word: showings
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...present the lacrosse squad consists of about twenty-five candidates. All of last year's team are out, together with a number of new men, some of whom show a great deal of promise. Each day the men have exercise with dumbbells in the gymnasium, followed by twenty minutes or more hard practice in passing and throwing, on the open court, and then finish up with a run on the track of about half a mile. As soon as the weather permits the practice will be transferred to Soldiers Field. Hood '85 and Williams '85 will probably coach...
...secure their degree in three years.- (d) Time of preparation for college should be shortened if desire is to lower age of entering professions: Min. Rep., p. 19.- (1) This is entirely feasible: S. C. Bartlett in Education, XI, p. 590.- (x) Foreign preparatory schools show this.- (y) Our preparatory schools could be improved-(A) In amount taught.- (B) in the time employed: C. W. Eliot in Atlantic, LXII, p. 250.- (e) One year saved in preparation is far better than one year lost from the college course...
Every part of the human body has been modified and determined by the peculiar function it has been made to perform. The traces of primitive man show a constant struggle with natural forces, a struggle for supremacy which developed all the muscular powers which have been handed down...
...supports another theory that has been offered, to the effect that Rontgen and cathode rays are independently generated in a vacuum tube, but that the former alone have the power of traversing the glass envelope. The fact that clearly defined radiographs of the hand were taken in five seconds show that Rontgen vibrations are greatly weakened in passing through the glass of the ordinary vacuum tube; this, however, was to be expected in view of the opacity of glass to such rays, as indicated in radiographs...
General Walker then went on to show by quotations from prominent monometalists that the whole story of this gold deluge has proved the validity of the bimetallic principle...