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...Longwood bridge to the Union Boat Club. The time made, 9 minutes and 40 seconds, although 29 and 1-5 seconds better than that made by Cornell in the race last year was slower than was made by the University crew in practice last year. It was also the slowest time made by the crew this year. The conditions for the race were not unfavorable, although the tide was extremely...
...Williams on Saturday, in a slow game, by a score of 8 to 2. The team showed less spirit than they have in previous games, for when a victory was practically assured, the men made little effort to increase the score, with the result that the game was the slowest played by the team this year. The batting was again most unsatisfactory. Against a pitcher much inferior to Stillman, the team aggregated two less hits than their opponents, and were generally unable to hit at the opportune moment. One successful bunt was made. Although not spirited, the work...
...quickest reactions in all positions and tests were found to be given by a single individual as were also the slowest. The slightest and greatest errors are more scattered among the subjects. The range of individual variation in quickness and accuracy is sufficient to determine the position of any given subject in the series...
...substitutes are Brewer, Bisbee and Pike, the last of whom is the slowest of the three in his movements...
...notes of most instruments is the tendency of elastic bodies to vibrate in a way capable of analysis into a number of manners of vibration having different rates. In some sources of tone the quicker of these vibrations are always an integral number of times as fast as the slowest, (which is also generally the strongest). In others the quicker rates are in general fractional multiples of the slowest. To the latter class belong instruments like bells and drums giving less perfect notes; the former class including all musical instruments properly so called. The cause of this aesthetic distinction Helmboltz...