Word: showings
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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These conferences show clearly the vigorous policy of the management. Those in charge are not satisfied with the expansion of quarters already secured; with the progress already made in providing courses, and in strengthening the corps of instruction. The progress in this direction has been remarkable ever since Professors Shaler and Hollis, and Mr. Chamberlain have been in charge of affairs. But their purpose is, not to trust solely to their own judgment, but to call on practical men to point out practical methods of improvement and enlargement...
...tube, and the action was maintained with this arrangement about two minutes, when the tube became so hot that the operation was stopped. The sensitive plate was then taken out and then developed with rodinol. Soon the part which had not been shielded by the glass slips began to show dark, and in a very short time the development was completed, the boundaries of the exposed part of the plate being well defined for the whole length of the plate. The image was then "fixed" in the ordinary...
...Fearing, Jr., and Trainer Fred Stone, not to put the candidates for the Mott Haven team into training until after the mid-year examinations, which will end on February 8, but they have already singled out the men who, by their records in the past, should show up well in their respective events...
...Eaton '98, J. L. Armstrong '98, and A. B. Tappin '99, the latter last year's interscholastic champion, are each capable of covering the distance under 4.40. At the half, Kingsley, has a record of 2.03.25. The quarter mile is another event in which Columbia should show well with such men available as G. T. Kirby '98, A. E. Schaff '99, N. G. Bijur '96, and Chatain '96, each good for at least 54s. At the 220 and 100 yard dashes are Clark '97, Caswell '98, Moffit '99, the Lawrenceville sprinter, Underhill and Miller, the champion of the Pacific coast...
Experiments with young birds which have never flown show that flight is instinctive. Professor Morgan described a series of experiments which he made, proving this. With the aid of his lantern slides he also illustrated the developement of flight in all orders of birds, beginning with the highest development as shown in the swallow and ending with the penquin...