Stevens Indicator, Volumi 9-10Alumni and Undergraduates of Stevens Institute of Technology, 1892 |
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Pagina 219 - LETTERS. Every day brings a ship, Every ship brings a word; Well for those who have no fear, Looking seaward well assured That the word the vessel brings Is the word they wish to hear.
Pagina 223 - Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Pagina 158 - One of these cakes, when hard enough, should be put in water and examined from day to day to see if it becomes contorted or if cracks show themselves at the edges, such contortions or cracks- indicating that the cement is unfit for use at that time. In some cases the tendency to crack, if caused by the presence of too much unslaked lime, will disappear with age.
Pagina 24 - A machine is a combination of resistant bodies so arranged that by their means the mechanical forces of nature can be compelled to do work accompanied by certain determinate motions.
Pagina 381 - It is further prescribed that these coefficients are to be increased respectively as follows : Ten per cent, where the exposure is a northerly one, and winds are to be counted on as important factors. Ten per cent, when the building is heated during the daytime only, and the location of the building is not an exposed one. Thirty per cent, when the building is heated during the daytime only, and the location of the building is exposed. Fifty per cent, when the building is heated during the winter...
Pagina 338 - States, involving the thorough and most scholarly study of principles directed immediately upon useful arts, and rising, in their higher grades, into original investigation and research, is to be found almost the perfection of education for young men. Too long have we submitted to be considered as furnishing something which is, indeed, more immediately and practically useful than a so-called liberal education, but which is, after all, less noble and fine. ' Too long have our schools of applied science...
Pagina 339 - The sincerity of purpose and the intellectual honesty which are bred in the laboratory of chemistry and physics stand in strong contrast with the dangerous tendencies to plausibility, sophistry, casuistry, and self-delusion which so insidiously beset the pursuit of metaphysics, dialectics, and rhetoric, according to the traditions of the schools. Much of the training given in college in my boyhood was, it is not too much to say, directed straight upon the arts which go to make the worse appear the...
Pagina 339 - I am considering. The student of chemistry or physics would scarcely know how to defend a thesis which he did not himself believe. In that dangerous art he has had no practice. The only success he has hoped for has been to be right. The only failure he has had to fear was to be wrong.
Pagina 341 - ... or as metallic iron, or both. No doubt the oleic acid acts to form salts of these metals, but it is certain, in many instances, that when formed, they are immediately decomposed or partially so, and a resulting mixture formed that is somewhat difficult of analysis. In the analysis here given, it will be noticed that the iron was found both as metal and as oxid.
Pagina 64 - ... it is my will and desire, that if it cannot legally be done, according to my above intention, by them, without an act of the Legislature, it is my will and desire that they will, as soon as possible, apply for an act of the Legislature to incorporate them for the purposes above specified.