Word: units
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Physical Colloqium. On the Thermal Unit. Mr. W. D. Collins. Jefferson Physical Liboratory, Room...
...crew, for their part, are at least a unit, and it but remains for the undergraduates, one and all, to fall into line, in order that perfect harmony may reign. If the students would look at it in this light, namely, that, after all, they do not know quite as much on the subject of rowing as they think they do, and decidedly not as much as Mr. Watson, our coach; if they look at it in this light, perhaps they can accept his plans, his ideas and his methods in a manner becoming an undergraduate body and true Harvard...
There are certain principles common to all orders. Every one consists of three parts, the entableture the column, and the base. In each one every part bears a certain relation to every other part. One-half the diameter of the column is taken as the unit of measurement and to this every thing is referred. It is not advisable to learn by heart all these relations, but the architect should be so familiar with their various appearances, that he can tell at a glance to what order any work belongs. In all the orders the column is straight...
...University of Chicago Weekly is a large eight page newspaper. The students at Brown edit the Brunonian, a paper of eleven pages which is to some extent given up to fiction. The Lehigh Burr of nine pages is almost wholly fiction. Iowa College publishes a weekly, known as the Unit, containing about eight pages usually devoted simply to news; occasionally, however, a literary number is published...
...found that Yale had acted not altogether wisely. The undergraduate rule made the college, not the university, the unit in athletics. It tended to break the bonds that existed between the different parts of the university; it ignored the fact of university development in this country, and expected that Pennsylvania and Princeton and Harvard universities would be content to be represented by Pennsylvania and Princeton and Harvard colleges. It was evident also that the undegraduate rule meant a curtailment of the possibilities of amateur sport, and that such curtailment was unnecessary. A bona fide student-one doing some real work...