The Harvard Yale Boat Race 1852-1924: And the Coming of Sport to the American College
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When Harvard and Yale met for a rowing race in 1852, American intercollegiate sport was born. From its early, informal days as a gentlemen's competition to its later role as an integral part of organized college athletics, Thomas C. Mendenhall traces the history of The Race through its formative period. The recognized authority on the history of collegiate rowing, Mendenhall covers the personalities, the technical and stylistic controversies, and the grand spectacle of the races themselves in graceful prose heavily illustrated with period images. This book will delight anyone interested in competitive rowing or collegiate athletics.
History of the Ohio State University, Vol. 3: Addresses and Proceedings of the Semicentennial Celebration, October 13-16, 1920 (Classic Reprint)
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Leaving the Armory, when the exercises for the day had been concluded, the guests and visiting alumni crossed the campus at twilight, arriving at the Library where the Presi dent and Mrs. Thompson presided at a public reception.
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Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education; Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Meeting Held in Boston, Massachusetts, August 18, 19, 20, 1898; Volume VI
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The Dynamic Force Of Liberty In Modern EuropeSix Problems In Historical Interpretation
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Twenty Unsettled Miles in the Northeast Boundary (Classic Reprint)
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Very Shortly after the grant of the French King in 1603, King James of England issued a charter to all of the terri tory in America extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, included between the thirty-fourth and forty-sixth degrees of north latitude, covering and including the pre vious grant of the French King, and thus setting fairly in motion the game of giving away lands without considera tion of the rights or even claims of others, in which the crowned heads of Europe delighted to indulge for a century or more. Colonization was attempted, and now one power, now another, was in the ascendant. Occasional treaties in Europe arrested petty warfare on this side, and out of it all came a general recognition of the St. Croix River as the boundary between the French possessions and those of the English. It is impossible and would be improper to go into these historical details, most of which are so generally known. It is only important to note that the province known as Nova Scotia by the one nation, as Acadia by the other, after various vicissitudes became the property of the English, and that it was assumed to be separated from the province of Massachusetts Bay by the river St. Croix.
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Thomas Corwin Mendenhall was an American physicist, administrator, and educator.
Background
Thomas Corwin Mendenhall was born on October 4, 1841, on a farm near Hanoverton, Ohio. He was the youngest of five children of Stephen Mendenhall and Mary (Thomas) Mendenhall. Of Quaker stock, he grew up in a community intensely anti-slavery in sympathy during a period when grave public questions were matters of wide and earnest discussion.
Education
Mendenhall was largely self-educated, his formal education being limited to the local public schools and to a short period in the Southwest Normal School at Lebanon, Ohio, from which he graduated in 1861. Following his graduation he taught mathematics and science in various high schools of his native state, meanwhile studying physics and higher mathematics privately.
Career
Possessed of the power of lucid presentation and imbued with enthusiasm for experimentation, Thomas met with such success as a teacher that he was elected in 1873 to the chair of physics and mechanics in the newly founded Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College at Columbus. In addition to his teaching, he was active in popularizing science through the organization of scientific societies and through popular lectures. At this time, scientific education in the Middle West was in its infancy, and by his ability as a teacher, his interest in research, and his charm as a lecturer he was instrumental in furthering to a marked extent the spread of science. In 1878 he was called to the chair of physics at the Imperial University at Tokyo, Japan. Here he remained three years, during which time he established a physical laboratory and a meteorological observatory. He was also influential in organizing a seismological society and in inaugurating a system of popular lectures. Returning to the United States in 1881, Mendenhall again occupied the chair of physics in the Ohio State University until 1884, at the same time organizing and directing the State Weather Bureau. In the next two years he served as professor of electrical science in the United States Signal Corps at Washington, in which connection he organized and equipped a physical laboratory, made systematic observations on atmospheric electricity, and established the systematic collection of data relating to earthquakes. In 1886 he left Washington to assume the office of president of Rose Polytechnic Institute at Terre Haute, Indiana, remaining there three years, during which time his book A Century of Electricity (1887) was published. In 1889 President Harrison appointed him superintendent of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, in which position he made his influence felt both as scientist and as administrator. As scientist he was responsible for the development of an improved portable apparatus for the measurement of gravity, which permitted the determination of the relative force of gravity with greater facility and accuracy, and under his plans a transcontinental series of gravity measurements were made. He was the first to propose the use of the ring pendulum for the measurement of the absolute force of gravity, a method which is now receiving considerable attention. As administrator he was responsible for inaugurating and maintaining high standards of scholastic attainment as a prerequisite to entrance into the technical force of the Coast Survey, and this at a time when the ideals of civil service were not yet firmly established. During this period he was also an active member of various important boards and commissions such as the United States Lighthouse Board, the United States Board of Geographic Names, the first Bering Sea commission, and the Alaska boundary commission. After five years as head of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, he left in 1894 to accept the presidency of Worcester Polytechnic Institute. In 1901 ill health compelled his resignation and he went to Italy to recuperate, remaining eleven years in Europe. Returning to the United States in 1912, he settled in Ravenna, Ohio, where he died in 1924 in the eighty-third year of his age.
While in Japan, Mendenhall measured the absolute force of gravity at Tokyo and the relative force of gravity between Tokyo and Fujiyama. From these measurements he determined the mean density of the earth, his result representing the best value obtained by this method at that time.
Quotations:
"More than ever before in the history of science and invention, it is safe now to say what is possible and what is impossible. No one would claim for a moment that during the next five hundred years the accumulated stock of knowledge of geography will increase as it has during the last five hundred In the same way it may safely be affirmed that in electricity the past hundred years is not likely to be duplicated in the next, at least as to great, original, and far-reaching discoveries, or novel and almost revolutionary applications. "
Membership
a member of the United States Lighthouse Board, a member of the United States Board of Geographic Names, a member of the first Bering Sea commission, a member of the Alaska boundary commission
Connections
On July 12, 1870, Mendenhall had married Susan Allen Marple of Columbus, Ohio. Happy in their family life for forty-six years until the death of Mrs. Mendenhall, they had the further happiness of seeing their only son become a distinguished physicist.