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...tank and go through the full motion on the fixed seat, the 'varsity crew are at last showing some signs of crew style and may now be criticized with a little reason. The crew is unquestionably hard at work in the first place, and the candidates are all showing rapid improvement though the crew is rather behindhand at present. The men are, on the whole, raw, and have had to be coached greatly on the rudiments. At this time of the year crews are frequently rowing with sliding seats, but this year the men are just beginning to break their...
...same. This quality is in most cases disagreeable, the few agreeable or consonant intervals having vibration ratios which can be expressed by the first five integers. Helmholtz has sought to explain this remarkable fact by the use of the same principle of the disagreeableness of the strong and rapid pulsations of sound formed by very near tones, which in his theory of Timbre accounts for the aesthetic superiority of notes with a few integral overtones to all others. He has shown that in all of the intervals called dissonant, some of the partial tones of one note must fall near...
...Bussey Institute is making rapid strides. Last year its membership amounted to two. This year the Institute started in with a membership of seven, which has since been increased to thirteen...
...present day of rapid change and fience attack upon traditional ideas the man who is to maintain the true faith of Christianity must stand upright and face the storm of criticism. Grander visions than were ever seen by ancient prophets are now being opened up by modern science. Everything has now become wonderful; the insignificant pebble contains a page of the past history of the world written indelibly upon it, and the tiny flower gives up to the student the great truths of the universe. It is just as proper to speak of the word of the Lord as coming...
...present instance. The entering freshman class this year is unprecedentedly large, and the other leading colleges show a similar increase. The numbers of the entering classes and the total number of students in the college have each more than doubled during the past twenty-five years, which is as rapid a ratio of increase as the population of the country shows in the same period, according to the census...