Word: well
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...experiment was recently tried in England to test the speed of a cricket ball. Turner, the well-known fast bowler of the Australian team, made the trial The testing apparatus consisted of a chronograph and a screan, across which wires were stretched, and through these wires electric currents were passed. When the ball cut the wires the record was instantly marked on the chronograph. The speed of the ball was discovered to be 81 feet a second or 55 miles an hour...
...clock makes it at times a real bore to take out a reserved book-so much so, in fact, that many men who have a true desire to study are unwilling to take the trouble of borrowing from the reserved shelves. For men like these, as well as for those who, though willing to take upon themselves the anxiety of returning borrowed books, feel, nevertheless, the inconvenience of the system, it seems as if something ought in justice to be done...
...extent and simply because the Exeter men in other colleges have offered to their hesitating brethren what seemed to be greater advantages than are to be found among us. We understand fully how zealous every Harvard man is to help his college but we also know that a little well directed energy will accomplish more than any amount of well-intentioned talk which does not completely persuade...
...last number of the Monthly, though its general tone is somewhat lighter than that of its precedessors, is excellent in every way with the exception of its verse. The dearth of real poetry of which the editors of our papers are loudly complaining is well illustrated by this number. Of the three contributions in verse, two are of little merit. They are lame in their movement and bare in their thought. The lines "A Picture" are better than the other verse...
...Triumph of Sorrow," contributed by Mr. Herrick, has a meaning so deeply hidden that we are not quite sure that we understand it. We feel rather than know the writer's thoughts. In spite of the obscurity, the piece is very well written...