Word: explains
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Leonidas La C. Hamilton, delivered a very interesting lecture in Lyceum Hall last evening, on the "New Science." The lecture was a practical statement of a new theory by which the speaker is to explain the action of gravity, in a forthcoming work...
...Each instructor would lecture once a week, with the privilege of omitting a lecture should there not be sufficient material for a fruitful discussion. Instructors in other departments of the college, whenever anything of especial interest happened in the branch in which they taught, might take an hour to explain the discovery or invention, whatever it might be. Thus the interest of the students would greatly be aroused in every day happenings, and we would have enthusiasm where now we have indifference...
...latest scientific discovery. It is not strange that the "Popular Science Monthly" should be so much read at Harvard. It is almost the only college where science courses are numerous and thorough. The political and philosophical reviews have many readers here: the fine courses in Political Economy and Philosophy explain this fact...
...cheaply as to be no more expensive than gas, so that there is no reason why we should not all have the electric lights in our rooms, if the faculty would only undertake it, just as they now manage steam heat in the buildings. The following figures will, perhaps, explain more fully what I mean. There are about three hundred and twenty rooms in the yard; for each room the occupant burns on an average six dollars worth of gas and kerosene per year; those men who save on their gas bills making up the average by means of kerosene...
...past, nor to have made a desultory study of history, in order that a man can read with intelligence the record of the present. There should be some one to point out the relation of what happens to-day to what has happened in the past; to amplify and explain this connection which newspapers either pass over entirely or speak of only in a misleading and blind...