Word: thingness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...complaints are always made that every thing taught at Harvard is the oratorical rather than practical, a new course projected by the chemistry department will be received with pleasure by the advocates of practical education. The course is to be one in technical or economic chemistry, and is to be devoted entirely to technical work. The work of this character now belonging to chemistry I., is to be taken from that course and incorporated in the new course. Chemistry I. will therefore be entirely theoretical, consisting largely of lectures, and will be of special importance as an introductory course...
...applicants who failed to get tickets to the first two entertainment's will now find a chance to get what they desired. They and all the college should extend their hearty thanks to the actors in "Hernani" who have consented to perform again, for after the novelty of the thing has worn off, acting becomes irksome to amateur performers and considerable inducement is required to get them to act out their parts under such circumstances. The same method of [disposing of the tickets, which worked so well at the first sale will be tried again, and it is needless...
...advantages over other sports. To enjoy it, it is not necessary for one to go through a course of training, nor to strain himself to excel everyone else. It is free from all suspicion of "professionalism." The canoeist engages in his sport for the pure fun of the thing, and can get along without the glory and black eyes and broken shins on base-ball and football. Canxing contains all the pleasures of yachting, and in addition many others of which the yachtsman knows nothing. To quote from one of the pioneers of the sport in America, "Canxing...
...electric charge of the air, and instruments have already been placed on the top of the new physical laboratory. It is a work of great delicacy, and some time must necessarily elapse before the great mass of results can be worked up. It seems, though, to be the coming thing for indicating the changes in the weather. It has already given good evidence of its ability to foretell changes, not only in the direction of the wind and of the humidity of the air, but also of the other more involved factors which must be taken into account in forecasting...
...upon the price of steel is seen by the increased manufacture of steel rails. A few years ago it was the boast of a few railroads that their rails were made of steel, but now scarcely a road is without this improvement, and iron rails are rapidly becoming a thing of the past. On account of a recent improvement, the power of the Bessemer process has been largely increased. It was formerly limited to certain ores, which were scarce in the coal region of our country, but now can be extended to such a degree as to be almost universal...