Word: length
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Conference Committee" of which I was one faculty member, when the meeting suddenly came to a close. In order to free my mind, I send my reminiscence to you. It concerns the matter of cheating at examinations, which the Conference Committee discussed at many meetings, and at considerable length. All wished to raise the tone of student honor, and if possible, to have the honor trusted, without proctors. But no practical scheme was discovered, and the subject was at last let drop...
...building and the rapid progress which has been made in the branch within the last fifteen years. One of the greatest undertakings of the age is the spanning of the Hudson at Poughkeepsie, by a massive bridge, 3094 feet, and with the approaches, one and one third miles in length. The object of this great work is to aid in the cheaper transportation of coal to the New England States, so that the manufactories will be developed to a large extent. The navigation of the Hudson is chiefly by tows, so that it is very important that the bridge will...
...transformed at will from a "photographic" to a "visual" lens by simply turning over the crown-glass lens and changing its distance from the flintglass lens. The Clarks have made for Professor Pickering a lens of this construction with an aperture of thirteen inches and a focal length of fifteen feet...
...juniors then rescue the freshmen and take them a little farther along and give them another grasp on the fence. This goes on until the sophomores have reached a position along the fence so that the freshmen can go no farther. Rarely a freshman class go the whole length of the fence in spite of the sophomores. The two classes then proceed to the campus, the sophomores going to their fence and the freshmen disbanding...
...Torrey, '90, replied for the affirmative, showing what the practical application of George's theory would be if adopted, and quoted at length from Macaulay in support...