Word: difficultate
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ball, perpendicularly to the scratch line, extended, if necessary, to meet this perpendicular." We see now the wisdom of the provision in regard to honorary members. The Executive Committee doubtless intend to elect the Professor of Surveying an honorary member, with the special duty of performing this difficult mathematical feat. We would also suggest that the Committee make arrangements for hiring that noble instrument, the marking-machine, which has recently occupied the attention of the undergraduate mind. When not required to grind minus quantities this instrument might prove tractable, even under the direction of some other than the master mind...
...Executive Committee have given abundant evidence of their ability to wrestle with difficult problems in mental arithmetic. For instance, given three judges and two ends of a piece of tape, problem, to place the judges so that the two ends of the tape shall be supported. The Committee have solved this by a master stroke, by placing two judges at one end of the tape, and the third at the other; but it seems to us that they have left out of consideration the feelings of the third judge. Isolated at one end of the tape, he is obliged...
...complaint made that one of the instructors in History had refused to tell the men in his elective their marks on the semi-annual examination. We should refrain from repeating the complaint if we had not understood from various quarters that the custom was increasing. It is difficult to discover the especial object in withholding these marks. If a student has not succeeded in passing a creditable examination, it is evidently of the utmost importance that he should know it, in order that he may bring up his average by closer application. If, on the other hand, he has done...
...conferred. Honors in an institution of learning can have no other object than to incite a spirit of emulation among its members, and we have no doubt that the Faculty, by a juster distribution of them, and by an enlargement of their scope, will increase their efficiency. It is difficult to conceive of an objection to a just and fair acknowledgment to any student for what he has done, irrespective of what he has left undone, except it come from one who in the midst of plenty cannot enjoy it unless those around him are starving. But such a spirit...
...Indian-club swinging - Messrs. E. D. Brandegee, '81, and J. T. Howe, '80, presented themselves. Mr. Brandegee led off with a fine exhibition of heavy club swinging, and Mr. Howe followed with a marvellously agile performance, using much lighter clubs. In the second round the former executed several extremely difficult motions which tested his strength, and showed off his perfect condition and careful training. Then Mr. Howe gave a second display of a great variety of dexterous tricks, which, however, belonged properly to the province of juggling and sleight-of-hand, rather than to that of club swinging...