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...rules of the American Association will govern the match. Five men constitute a team, each man to shoot at 30 birds in strings of 5. There will be three traps arranged 5 yards apart in the are of a circle and concealed by a screen. The traps will be unknown; that is, the bird may fly from any one of them...
...last floor from the head of the stairs there is a mosaic tiled corridor leading to the study room. This is directly over the recitation rooms, and is 70 by 30 feet. To the right of the study is a space about ten feet wide, partitioned by a panelled screen. Rising from this screen is a colonnade. The columns are of fine proportions and of the Corinthian order. On these columns rests an appropriate entablature. This room is to be fitted with tables and chairs, and here students may prepare for recitations or consult books from the library...
...room, is a door leading to the library. This room is provided with iron racks and adjustable shelves. The windows looking out into the hall are made of fire-proof glass. The material is a novelty. The metal while in the molten state has been poured over a wire screen, so that if a fire should break out the flames could not crack the glass...
...tests of quickness and accuracy in touching a dot were made in three positions; immediately in front of the subject, and to the right and left of it. A dot was suddenly shown in one of these positions by the dropping of a small screen placed before it, and the subject then endeavored to strike it as quickly and accurately as possible. The time was then secured in thousandths of a second, and the error of touching was calculated in millimeters. The following table shows the time for the two hands in these different positions...
...sparring made by Dr. Fitz last year in the physiological laboratory will be continued this year. In addition to these, a "Visual location apparatus for testing manual quickness and accuracy" has been devised. The machine consists of a moving carriage which is placed in different positions behind a screen. The screen is suddenly dropped and the subject strikes as quickly and accurately as possible a white spot in the centre of the carriage. The time from the dropping of the screen to the hitting of the dot is measured in hundredths of seconds by a pendulum chronometer and the error...