Word: turning
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...supervision of athletics, and makes the suggestion that the "H" should perhaps be given to those men only who have all-round athletic ability. It would indeed be comforting to feel that your hammer-throwing specialist could at a pinch fill in creditably at baseball or hockey, or even turn a handspring upon a wager. Another serious article, by W. Lippmann, pleads for more robustness of interest, on the part of students, in American politics. By all means,--and in other matters too. "The Chinese Classics and Modern Research," by A. D. Sheffield, is closely reasoned, as it goes...
...There are certain inward satisfactions that have been revealed to me in the few years I have been in educational circles. In undergraduate life, the supreme pleasure is to obtain such a control of the mind, that will enable you to turn upon any subject that may interest you, and hold it there until it delivers to you all that is possible to see,--to show up to you all that is within that subject, that man is capable of discovering. There is constantly in the college community a lifting up from plane to plane, higher and higher. The social...
...large and interested audience in Emerson Hall yesterday afternoon. His topic was "The Happiness of Nations." Happiness cannot be defined, but may be exemplified by experiences. Voluntary acts are divided into those which are useful and useless; useful acts are subdivided into productive and consumptive ones; consumptive acts, in turn, are divided into positive and negative, and productive acts into pleasurable and pleasureless ones. Productive acts are further subdivided into compulsory and spontaneous acts...
...Dean of the Medical School; "Unfold Ye Portals," by the Alumni Chorus; Address, by George V. I. Brown, D.D.S., M.D., of the University of Iowa; Address by president Eliot; Mr. C. A. Coolidge '81, representing the firm of Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge, architects of the new building, will turn over the keys to President Lowell, who will make a brief address of acceptance: "Loyal Song," by the Alumni Chorus; Benediction, by William W. Fenn '84, A.M., D.D., Dean of the Divinity School...
Stability is of two kinds: transverse and fore and aft. The aeroplane in mid-air has two forces acting on it besides that of gravity, a tendency to turn over sideways and a tendency to pitch either backward or forward. To counteract the former, and thus gain transverse stability, the Wrights warp the ends of their planes in such a way as to apply a downward force on the elevated side. To minimize the danger of pitching forward and thus gain fore and aft stability, the horizontal rudder, rigged either in front or behind the machine, is the most effective...