Word: frictioned
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...eight-oared friction machine in which all the oars are connected, so that it can only be used by an entire crew. The other is a single machine with an oar on either side, which will be used for individual coaching...
...general tables at Memorial have been watching the experiment with the keenest interest. The success of the plan is earnestly hoped for by the Board of Directors and college authorities, for it means the solution of a very difficult question for both. The plan worked without any appreciable friction until the adoption of the rule requiring men who eat at the general tables to get a check from the Auditor before each meal. The very first time this rule was put in operation it received a severe test, and like all new things did not work with entire smoothness...
...been worked out yet, and probably very little can be known this year of the exact character of the new scheme. But the directors will devote considerable time before fall to preparing the details of the plan, and hope to begin the year with as much absence of friction as usual. It is estimated that the new plan will accommodate from three hundred to five hundred more men than are in the hall at present...
...more efficient disciplining of delinquents; that the overseers approved these rules, though still "retaining their opinion as to the desirability of an early morning report." The year's record is satisfactory evidence that a roll-call was not necessary, for its good effects have been obtained without the friction it would inevitably have produced. Under the new rules the daily attendance of students has been more regular than ever before, and has been fully up to the standard any reformer could desire. The slackness in attendance near the beginning and end of recesses has also been checked under...
...first it will be little more than an advisory committee of the presidents; but as time goes on and the system develops, its powers will be increased and defined as far as may seem advisable. By means of this council it is hoped to avoid a good deal of friction and misunderstanding which under the present system unavoidably arises between the different schools...