Word: would
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wished that some time in the course might be spent on the non-Euclidian geometries of Lobachersky and Rieman, which have received so much popular notoriety, and upon a few other modern developments of geometry about which those who have studied some mathematics would like to be able to enlighten their friends...
...daily exercises are unpleasant requirements, but their abolition would probably increase the difficulty of the course. Some substitute method, however, would be very desirable, even the high school method of holding students responsible for explaining any assigned problem on the blackboard, if that were practicable...
Stop and ask yourself how much you really know about the weather. Do you know what would justify an official forecast of rain? do you know why the wind blows? have you any idea what a cyclone is or what causes a tornado? It is this type of thing which is hidden behind the more or less baffling heading of "Meteorology" and which in reality is more closely connected with our everyday life than any other science...
...timely warning to any prospective loafers would not be out of place here. Professor Ward demands precision in his students just as he exercises it himself. With proper attention, however, Meteorology 1 should provide some of the most lasting and interesting knowledge of the whole college course...
...good manners in intercollegiate football that the need for a uniform congress of colleges on a football code can hardly be denied. At its annual meeting last spring the National Students Federation of America considered just such a need and voted a resolution to the effect that it would exert all of its influence towards the organization of a conference which would reorganize athletic eligibility rules...