Word: motion
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...world of a "well-knit" order; for only the "well-knit" is describable. Hence the world of Realism has "laws" in it; and these laws themselves turn out, when freed from our mere appreciative comments and additions, to be, in the last analysis laws, of "matter and motion." The describability of phenomena in space and time is thus assumed. Yet when one analyzes in what describality consists, and then asks whether space and time and matter and motion themselves are or can be ultimately describable, one finds that in the last resort they are essentially indescribable, being merely "appreciable...
...likely that more than five men will object to the giving of the senior eleven's surplus to the class committee in order that a meeting of the senior class may be called. The seniors will remember that at the last meeting of the class the motion to provide that the Ninety-one class day garment be the cap and gown instead of the dress suit was laid on the table until the next meeting; those men who favor the new method of dress will find this an excellent opportunity to bring the subject up for a final vote...
...Luke. When the regular meeting was over, the president of the association called a business meeting. D. C. Torrey '90 proposed that the society reprint five thousand copies of the article enticed "Harvard's Better Self," by W. R. Bigelow, which appeared recently in the New England Magazine. The motion was passed. It will cost $125 to print and send out five thousand copies...
...four crews rowing, but for the last day or two there have been but three. G. E. Burgess, the captain, has been coaching the crews. Every now and then C. A. Hight, L. S., his taken the crews for an afternoon. The work has consisted so far of body motion, practising the swing from the hips and the stiff back. For a part of the time the straight arm has been practised; and yesterday in the rowing room the first two crews used the oars. After the rowing the men go through a brief dumb bell exercise, and take...
Furthermore, a proposition for the game should be accompanied by an understanding as to the future meetings for a definite number of years. We should have some guarantee that Harvard, in case Princeton is outmatched this year, will not again put the machinery of ostracism in motion...