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...Lawton will lecture on the laws governing the intersection of curves in one plane. The subjects for general discussion are the following. 1. Series for determining the ratio 3,141392. 2. To circumscribe about a given quadrilateral the ellipse of a minimum. 3. A uniform chain hangs with its lower end just touching a horizontal, inelastic table. The chain is let fall. Prove that, at any instant, the pressure on the table is three times the weight of the coil already on the table...
...exacting. It has required more hours of work than the average course, to do the required reading, not to mention the general outside work which all ambitious students wish to do. The changes inaugurated for this year have increased the demands formerly made on the student. To do the minimum amount of reading on the average lecture and make notes of the matter read, requires from two to three hours, and the student has still his special report to prepare and the general readings to attend to. As but few copies of the books in which reading is required...
...cribbers as a class are found among those who are seeking the minimum mark requisite for passing. They reason that they are gaining no false glory, and are depriving no one of deserved prizes, by a few tricks which are regarded as shrewd rather than dishonest. They take no pains to conceal their method of gaining forty or fifty per cent., and even boast among their companions, of the cunning way in which they hood-winked the proctor...
...grounds for continuing their prohibition of the sport. We look forward with confidence to a removal of the interdict which has lain upon the game since last fall. The alterations in the code have, apparently, done everything that can be done to reduce rough and ungentlemanly play to a minimum. That the college may become acquainted with the exact nature of the change, we purpose to print in full the new rules in our 'issue of tomorrow...
...ball will not be into the crowd gathered about the base ball field, or sitting on the few seats yet remaining on Jarvis. If no other location for the cricket crease can be found, every possible precaution ought to be taken to reduce this nuisance to a minimum...