Beloit College - Codex Yearbook (Beloit, WI)

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Ni N elderly man sits at the organ. The fading S1111- set light falls through the colored panes and is lost in the shadows of the great oak arches. The gilded pipes peal forth a melody that stirs the heart's profoundest depth. Stops and pedals seem forgotten as the music swells and dies away, to rise again more noble than before. Longing, joy, memories of years far past, sound in that harmony. The grey-haired master at the keys speaks through his instrument of the soul up-reaching toward the Eternal. There is a softer strain, a few lingering, reverent chords, and the Worshipful musician has fin- ished. The twilight grows dim, darkness settles slowly down, and over all the listening throng broods a spirit of infinite peace.

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Jamie Faculty Definitions JE CAPILLARITY-A simple but rather neat physical phenomenon, which usually keeps science teachers humping, to have their classes understand, all hands 'round. Place several glass tubes into a bucket of water. By tinkering with them a while We may assume three sets of surfaces-glass-air, glass-water, and water-air. If the temperature of the water is iniinity, a fourth interesting feature-hot-air-is introduced. Let O be the mean elevation of the liquid in the tube, above the liquid surface outside, and M the pressure. The entire surface tension LIJ around the interior of the tube where the film is attached is 2 11 w T, w being the water outside of the tube. Let 0 be the angle of contact which the perimeter of the meniscus makes with the water-glass surface, if it is clean. Then by hypothesis I 2l'IwT6059:g5z'n1Iffz Cooking this up, gives us zgssinfifvf-I-i25:QTOMj2t which is the amount of work performed by the water-air surface in cleaning the surface of the glass. Now, iz! a ray of polarized light be passed through the bottom of the tube, at an angle parallel to the arc of the meniscus, then by Avogardo's law the longitudinal vibra- tions Will prance around transversely until the force of the vviggler peters out, when the angle of inclination becomes negative acceleration and follows the regular law of motion on the plane of the ecliptic. Hence this is called capillary attraction, or capillarity. T. A. S. CHAPEL-A department of the college designed for the suppression of frivolous impulses, e. g., an impulse on the part of any professor to stand on his head or execute a somersault backward, is at once checked by his being assigned a place in the faculty row. G. A. T. IELIZABETHAN LITERATURE-A fziulezfesiing subject, really, but dontt you know, it's hardly just quite exactly absolutely accurately defined by any single statement. If you will pardon a personal reference, my edition of the Elivabethan drama will cover this point more fully. M. VV. W. A THEBIE-A more or less happy effort on the part of a student to write something intelligible and produce a literatesque effect at the same time. After being written, the production is analyzed by an expert, and all ambitious attempts and marks of genius rather carefully eradicated, and the student is warned. Sometimes one warning is sufhcient, but it is almost impossible to make a thing like this effective. L. M. P. tThis step, I presume, is evident enough to all who have taken Sophomore Math, 39

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