Word: sound
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Thousands of employers are confronted with the problem of eliminating noise in their offices, for they have found that it consumes strength and attention, and diminishes the efficiency of employees. The question has been solved by Dean Sabine, who, in 1895, began a series of experiments to determine the sound-absorbing qualities of various types of walls, floors, furniture and their coverings. The important result was the discovery that hair felt, when applied to the walls and ceilings, would practically destroy echoes or reverberations of all ordinary sounds, and thus reduce the total volume. Other fabrics, it was found, would...
Laying down the rule that "the average loudness of a sound in a room is proportional inversely to the absorbing power of the material in the room," Dean Sabine has made careful experiments to determine the absorption value of the common forms of construction used in office walls and movable partitions. He has established the fact that a square yard of felt of a given thickness will absorb a certain amount of noise, and that if there is an overplus of noise, one must simply put up a corresponding area of sound-proof blanket. He has produced a long-fibre...
...meetings call for improvement rather than abolition. Mr. Bullard's defence of the athletic coach is also most timely in view of the recent attack on college athletics by Coach Courtney of Cornell and Principal Stearns of Phillips Andover. Mr. Bullard recognizes the difficulties of the situation and makes sound proposals to remedy them...
...reality and later a tradition, is now largely a myth. In its place there is the right sort of rivalry combined with clean sportsmanship. Dean Briggs has commented on this feeling in his report on athletics. His words, bearing added weight because they appear in an official document, sound the welcome closing of a needlessly hostile attitude, that has long and steadily been growing weaker at both universities. Yale and Harvard have too much in common, their ultimate aims too nearly coincide for any petty barriers to exist between them...
...looking through these articles one gathers a confuses impression pf dissatisfaction. Something seems to be wrong. The subjects are good, the opinions expressed are for the most part sound: what can be the matter? The answer is to be found in the leading article by Mr. Coggeshall, "A Harvard Man's Impressions of Oxford." Like the other contents of the number this article is in no sense a literary essay. It is of a "newsy" character appropriate to the magazine. But it possesses distinction of style; it is readable. The other articles hold the reader rather by the interest...