Word: various
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...most interesting of these collections is the case of graphite and clay in their crude forms. Here are shown the various stages in the manufacture of lead pencils, graphite, electrodes and lubricants. The materials are also displayed which illustrate the manufacture of the Welsbach light. Samples of the lighting fluid and the mantle dip, which renders the mantle incandescent, are shown, beside the cotton webbing in the mantle form before it is dipped in the solution of light-giving oxides...
There are other ways in which a more extended interest in Harvard could be created. The local Harvard Clubs in each city could offer prizes for interscholastic competitions of various sorts, such for instance as in athletics, school journalism, debating, and excellence in scholarship. This has been done, I believe with success, by one of the Harvard Clubs...
...present Hemenway Gymnasium has been of late the subject of such criticism from various quarters on the ground of utter inadequateness that the CRIMSON has prepared the following article on the history and condition of gymnastic facilities at the University with the view of presenting the subject in its entirety...
...original building contained the main hall, 115 feet by 84 feet at its widest extent, the running track, rowing room, bowling alleys, committee rooms, measuring room and office, while the lockers were in what is now the chest-weight corridor. The crew practiced in the rowing room, but the various petty teams that occupy the Gymnasium today were not taken into consideration...
...scale on which the undertaking was projected, the whole series has been issued from the press within the comparatively short space of less than four years, an unusual achievement for an enterprise of its kind. Upon the general editor has devolved the task of delimiting the scope of the various numbers and determining the different phases of the subject upon which greater or less stress should be placed; of selecting more than a score of authors to whom the compilation of the individual volumes has been entrusted; and of coordinating the whole into a homogeneous unit. Efforts to fuse together...