Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...relative positions at this point in the race has to do with the order in which they crossed the finish line. But if this picture had been taken at the instant the winner breasted the tape, it would have been impossible to learn from it who had won. The instrument stood on the bank at the extreme outside edge of the path. about 25 yards from the finish, and the view obtained was from the rear of the runners. Nearest to the camera was the rearmost man, either Horr of Cornell, or Lund of Harvard, fully 10 feet behind...
...camera seen nothing and records nothing which the human eye, placed it in the same position, would not see; and no man, standing where the instrument stood, could have known who won. A man five yards in front or behind the finish-line frequently thinks the race won by a runner who was a full yard behind. A man 20 or 25 yards away knows nothing at all about a close finish, and the camera knows no more than the man. The writer of this article sat five yards behind the finish line, and thought Sherrill...
PIERIAN SODALITY. The club will be photographed at 1.15, at the rear of of the library to day. Every member should be present with his instrument on time...
...musical ability of the band, yet there are some members who have been negligent of late and should be awakened to the interests of the band. A brass band is an honor of which the college ought to be proud, and those who are able to play any band instrument should not let this organization decline for want of torch-light processions...
...Erasmus Wilson thinks the hairs act partly as excretory organs, separating from the system a quantity of carbon and hydrogen, which enter into their composition. The instrument used in testing the sensibility of the skin is called an Aesthesiometer. The degree of sensibility is measured by the distance between the points at which they can be recognized as two. The following, in millimeters, are the three shortest distances at which the two points can be distinguished: Tip of tongue, 1.1; third phalanx of finger, palmar surface, 2.3; red part of lips...