Word: current
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Crooke's tube. This Professor Trowbridge has settled by means of the new battery. Instead of the 20,000 volts which were before considered necessary, he has found that 100,000 are needed to produce the flash, and that with increasing voltage the picture becomes steadily plainer. This current, acting through one ten-millionth of a second, develops one million horse power...
Another important discovery made by Professor Trowbridge is that the current through the Crooke's tube goes in only one direction and not in both as has been supposed...
...ninth number of the current volume of the Advocate, which appeared yesterday, is an interesting issue. Arthur Ruhl '99 contributes a story, "The Leading Lady" that is one of the best things he has done. Although some-what long it is interesting and the characters are nicely drawn. "On the Dry Salvages," by Guy H. Scull '98, is a good bit of description. The story "In the Wood-Path," by Mary Allen Rand, is carefully written, but its theme is too often used to be any longer of interest...
...sail-loft refitted in an attractive style and is used daily by over one hundred men for reading, writing, smoking and playing games. Hitherto the reading matter has consisted of the daily papers and of such back numbers of the illustrated periodicals as were donated. The fresh current numbers would naturally prove more interesting and attractive to the readers...
Riddle entered Harvard from the University of Kansas, after receiving the degree of A. M. last June he was appointed an instructor in mathematics at the University of Minnesota for the current year...