Word: wave
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...doing the same thing now. What Franklin failed to see was that the discharge of electricity is not in one direction, but oscillatory. Josepe Henry noticed in 1835 that a Leyden jar gave out not one spark merely but several in succession. He discovered induction, and surmised wave motion, but he never thought of looking together for the source of that motion. It never occurred to him nor to us until very recently, that the electricity is not in the wires of an electrical apparatus, but in the outside air. The discovery of this fact is the great achievement...
...shall all miss them when they are gone. Their achievements in the field in of knowledge as well as their victories in the field of athletics will keep their memory green in the hearts of all those who were in college with them. A few days hence they will wave their degrees high in air and bid their Alma Mater an affectionate farewell. Our best wishes go with them, may their actions in the great world about us equal their achievements in our college world. To the class of '88 which is about to take the place vacated by those...
...enough to inspire those who will represent Harvard to-morrow. But much can be done towards making the sight fairer and more encouraging by having the college colors displayed in every part of the field. We hope to see every man carry quantities of crimson to Holmes Field and wave it there right lustily...
...last we are on the tide wave of advance, and hope to send a team to Mott Haven. On looking over the records, it will be found that Williams won first prizes in the one hundred yards dash and quarter-mile run, in 1876, the first year of the annual meetings. Now, why has she so ignominiously failed to hold her own since that day? Simply through a lamentable lack of enthusiasm. When we think that other colleges of our size are training a dozen or twenty men, we ought to feel rather "tired." In fact, the reputation we have...
...McCosh school raise their voices in tones of pious horror, and a great journal denounces Cambridge as a nest of corruption, scepticism and philosophic indifference, the college itself is waxing in greatness year by year. Borne by the impulse of her own audacity, Harvard is on a tidal wave of success. From the present chaos of change there bids fair to be evolved something that America does not possess - a great university. - Cincinnati Telegram...