Word: screens
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...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...
...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...
...CRIMSON has completed arrangements to publish the official returns of the presidential elections to-night by a stereopticon. The screen on which the returns are to be cast will be hung from the window of Joll's barber shop, where they can be seen from nearly every point in the square. The stereopticon will be piaced in the window of Allnutt's Dining Rooms and if possible a wire will run directly from there to the main office. The returns are furnished by the Western Union Telegraph Co. and will come from New York. A competant operator on this...
...publish in another column our plans for receiving and giving out the election returns. We have made arrangements with the Western Union Telegraph Co. by which we are to receive direct from New York the official returns; and these returns we shall cast by stereopticon upon a screen at Joll's barber shop, over Claflin's drug store in the squre. We cannot tell when we shall receive our first returns but they will be cast upon the screen as fast as they come till the final one is received. Since we have made formal arrangements with the proper authorites...