Word: focus
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Lost. In going from Memorial to the library Friday evening, a pair of double focus eyeglasses...
...lecturer spoke of the aids to naturalism which improvements in stage mechanism had been, and told of the amusing efforts of actors to be in the "focus" of the old-style footlights. He then proceeded to speak of elocution as an aid to the actor. "The study of elocution is necessary for the acting art. The advice of the old actors was that the voice should be pitched so as to allow the top galleries to hear. This idea has passed away. An actor must be natural, but to be natural he must be broader than nature. One always listens...
...Webster. '85, will give a third lecture on the "Dynamics of Billiards." The subjects for discussion will be: I. The curvature of the cogs of wheels. II. Two circles are tangent to two given lines at two given points and also two tangent to each other. Find the focus of the points of contact of the circles...