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...this, or 20 per cent. failed to surpass him. If, however, his line where it intersects the line of measurement, fall on the line at the right or left of one of the numbered perpendicular lines, add or subtract 2 1-2 per cent, unless it fall outside either the figure 10 or 90, in which case, but 1 1-4 per cent. should be reckoned...
...long-winded repetition, which prolonged the meeting beyond reasonable limits, and made it so dull that the room was nearly empty at the close. At the same time several good points were made by members on the floor on both sides, of which no notice was afterwards taken, either pro or con. By this a very indefinite character was given to the latter half of the discussion...
...deterred until a year or so before the first class graduates. There are to be no dormitories, at least for the first two years. Mr. Clark believes that for the present none are needed, as he expects to draw his pupils mainly form the young men of Worcester who either do not care to leave home to attend college or whose means would not permit them to do so. He offers to such men the advantages of the larger colleges while the attendant expenses are much smaller. It is expected that the first freshman class will enter in the fall...
...founder, Mr. Clark, could not have been used to better purpose by endowing one of the many small colleges struggling for an existence, or by placing the money in the hands of the trustees of some university like Harvard. Doubtless great good would have been done in either case. Be that as it may, Mr. Clark has seen fit to add one more to the already large list of colleges and this one is to be carried on as an ideal creation of his own mind. Whether he will be successful in his design, years only will tell. We cannot...
...spirometer, manometer, a pair of suspended rings and a set of parallel bars. The tests were limited to the back, legs, chest, upper arm and fore-arm. Before summing up the result of the arm of chest tests, the number of times that a person had lifted himself either way was multiplied into a tenth of his weight; the object being to credit each person with the number of foot pounds lifted, rather than to reckon the number of times the body was raised without respect to its weight. A tenth of the weight was taken in order to reduce...