Word: remodelling
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...been found necessary to remodel the dark room of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory. The sun, beating on the south side of the building, raises the temperature of the dark room to such an extent as to cause a variation in the length of light waves, thus interfering with experiments...
...great majority of Harvard men is totally disgusted at the phase which athletics have assumed here during the past few years. The successive defeats of Harvard teams are attributed to the intermeddling of the faculty in athletics-an institution which the faculty, in its ill-judged endeavor to remodel and reorganize, has only succeed in working incalculable harm...
...Lampoonized edition of Life, its style of pictures, its jokes (?) and its clippings. Why the Lampoon, which was the father of Life, and in former days was conceded to be its superior in originality and wit, if not in the execution of its pictures, should now turn about and remodel itself after the pattern of its offspring is a puzzling question. It has been said that the changes made will induce a larger sale outside of college, and that the Lampoon's pecuniary difficulties demanded the change. However, why it is more difficult to find sufficient support for the paper...
...believe in trial by jury and thought that a jury is a body that is very easily influenced. "Better a new jury than a wrong verdict." We do not at present need the jury, but we should keep it to protect us in the future. We ought not to remodel a system so often used and proved through fear of the results which might arive from the obstinate action of one dissenting juryman...
...chiefly for future use or for minor aims? The Nation, a paper which is one of the most intelligent friends of the university, has often commented upon the ill-organized and poorly paid instruction of the freshman year at Harvard. And even if the faculty does intend soon to remodel and raise the standard of our freshman course, that is no reason why it should be left so much at loose ends for the present. Although a fine-arts building and new dormitories would be acquisitions greatly to be desired, such things are by no means the chief aims...