Lyceum

Article #31 - Meaning of Cubic Ton

 

What is the meaning of Ton in Cubic Measure, and why does it take 50 feet of square timber

to make a Ton and only 40 feet of round timber.

 

[This is a technical, well presented article, giving the process by which formulas for such measures are arrived at, including allowance for the weights of different kinds of wood.]

 

Article #30 - Process of Learning

 

 

            For the Journal

Article #29 - A person's Shadow

 

Is there any place south of the tropic of capricorn from which a person’s shadow would fall north?

 

This question may be understood in two different ways. It may be construed to mean whether [sic] a person’s shadow would fall north of the tropic of capricorn, or it may mean northward from the place on which the person may be standing. Taking the first as the meaning I will answer that there is none to my knowledge, taking the second, I answer there are many places, and at the south pole is one of them.

Article #28 - The Past, Present, and the Future

 

 

The subject selected for the present essay is one particularly interesting, a portion of it alone (the Past) would afford a theme upon which very much might be written. We might travel far back

Article #27 - A morning Revery (sic)

 

[This paper has much insect damage. Below is a fragment.]

 

...is previous to us, it departs not hastily. From yonder field comes the odor of the new hay but yesterday the victim of the scythe. The brook makes pleasant music, and the songs of the birds blend with it so sweetly that our hearts when hearing them must surely feel that God has given all lovely things for our benefit, and these might teach us to feel anew each day that He intended our lives to be as harmonious and beautiful as theirs.

Article #26 - Sleeping with Plants

 

Why is it unhealthy to sleep in a room where plants are growing

In order to answer this question we must consider what are the componants [sic] of Atmosp-

Article #25 - Botany

 

[Some insect damage to this page.]

 

                        Botany

How interesting and instructive it must be to trace the different species of Flora’s beauties

which bedecks the face of nature from their germ hidden in the ground up through all its changes

Article #24 - Organization

 

For the Journal

                                    Organization

            There appears to have been in the minds of men through all ages an instinctive desire for association; in whatever enterprise they may engage whether for pecuniary or public advantage

or for the advancment of morals or religion in the earth, organizations have stood as an

efficient means for promoting the object.

Article #23 - Intemperance and Punishment

 

Mr. Editor

            Feeling deeply interested in your Lyceum I take the liberty to pen a few lines

fo your Journall [sic]. I think it ought to be sustained its colums [sic] are mostly full of inter-

Article #22 - Why does a black pencil on a black slate make a white mark?

 

Feeling that this question deserved more consideration than was given it by the members of this association, it having been presented to them and rejected without even a verbal answer, I will bring it up again for the purpose of a further investigation. There are some questions that cannot be answered, there are others of such a nature as not to promote the object of a Lyceum, others answers to which would be uninstructive and uninteresting and to answer some would be a waste

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