Word: medium
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...larkers acting for their own personal amusement now. I must confess that the weak point of the Harvard character seems to me to be a lack of moral courage in the deeper affairs of life. An individual who comes here full of it, finds himself in a non-conducting medium. His vibrations die away like the sound of a bell in an air pump. I have heard the older men who succeeded in mitigating the uproar of the freshmen after the late boat races sneered at as officious. If there were 700 or 800 like them in college we should...
...that we have the ablest professors, the finest museums, and the largest library; but if we do not employ these advantages, our boast is vain. We have all heard time and time again of the slight mental strength gained, by passively taking our facts and ideas through the handy medium of a lecture. As far as real drill goes, listening to lectures affects our minds about as watching other men pull chest weights affects our bodies. As the office of the director of the gymnasium is to show us the apparatus which is for our own use, so the duty...
...extremes of life we are much more susceptible to the injurious effects of cold than in the intervening period. "Draughts" act by cooling a part of the body through the medium of the skin...
...French department of the college has afforded many opportunities to the students at large to become acquainted, through the agreeable medium of evening readings with the standard works of French literature. We are sure that an effort to do something similar on the part of the German department would be gladly welcomed by a large number. All of us ought to be allowed to share the pleasure which those who are taking German courses experience in listening to Mr. Wheeler and Mr. Bartlett...
...credited with the invention of a unicycle from which great results are expected. There is a screw loose in the instrument or else in the description, for it is described as a "spokeless wheel, inside of which two persons can sit" while propelling it through the medium of "intricate, but easy working machinery." The lucid description further states that there are two wheels, one inside the other, but as the outer wheel only rests on the ground the machine is called a unicycle. - T. F. and Farm...