Word: current
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Manpassant, Miss Jewett, Miss Wilkins. Rudyard Kipling. Frank Stockton and Harding Davis. The subject is receiving so much discussion to day that it will be interesting and instructive to hear what Mr. Copeland has to say about it, particularly as we have no course in college which covers current literature...
...agreed upon. As yet, however, there has been nonofficial correspondence on the subject. Harvard has received no proposition from Pennsylvania, and there has been no conference between the two Universities. Whatever may be done later, it is certain that at present there is no foundation for the current report that arrangements for games have been completed...
...world has been done by Christianity, and America, in its politics, in its commerce sorely needs the influence of strong and right-minded men today. It is not that men who do not follow Christ are always sinful, but they are always wasteful. They live out of the main current of history. The grandest truths are not to be entrusted to the poorest specimens of manhood. They need and must have strong men. Harvard is to maintain her character for honor, manliness and Christianity, and the students who go from her are to put these truths into active and powerful...
...Burton's invention makes a revolution in the forging business. Formerly metals were heated by fire and then pounded into the desired shapes. The one primary improvement effected by the electrical method is that the metals have to be heated but once. An electric current that is held under absolute control is passed through the metal, and by means of delicate mechanism, just the same degree of heat can be maintained in the metal for an indefinite length of time. Under the old method, the metal would soon become cold and have again and again to be heated, so that...
...absolute control of the current is therefore the first essential, and Mr. Burton has found that by making the rheostats not out of wire but out of liquids that more perfect control is obtained. Mr. Burton has also discovered that when several metals are heated by the same currents, the softer are not fused more quickly than the harder; in other words, each metal calls for its appropriate amount of the current. Thus he is enabled to heat iron, copper, and brass all by one current...