Word: performance
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...held by the leading physicists, to the effect that electrical currents are propagated like light waves, the ether which permeates and surrounds the universe. The theory and the arguments in its support were stated clearly and concisely and at the same time a number of the experiments were performed to acts as illustrations of the arguments. It was a notable fact that while all the experiments were simple in their nature, they were all right to the point and proved convincingly what they were meant to prove. Professor Rowland then went to the subject of lightning rods and gave...
...class also has a duty to perform. It is to give to the team the heartiest encouragement and the most generous financial support. Nothing will held the team more than to know that every well directed effort on their part has the hearty approval of the whole class. As for the nine itself, the captain must be able to rely upon his men, and the men must have the fullest confidence in their leader. From all these men the class and the whole college are expecting earnest and concientious work and an energy which will overcome all obstacles...
...removal of one of the great obstacles which have stood in the way of Harvard's success in the past. It remains with the nine to demonstrate the folly of the objections which have been brought against playing with professionals-a task which they will without doubt easily perform...
...work of the committee on elective courses is no doubt hard to perform, and presents many complications not easily explained to an outsider. We do not, therefore, wish to criticize adversely the committee's labors, but simply to recommend a change which seems to us very desirable...
...women are to be given the right to vote, they ought certainly to be given instructions which will fit them to perform their duties as citizens. Naturally a knowledge of American institutions and of American history is of the first consequence, yet we find but scanty provision for instruction in these two subjects. In two out of fourteen selected colleges for women, it was found that American history had no assigned place; in three, one course in it is given; in four, two courses; in three, three courses, and in two, Cornell and Michigan, four courses. "In eight...