It was the semifinal round of Certamen, Latin for contest, the Junior Classical League's answer to “It's Academic.” Two teams of four-each sat across from a judge, and pressed buzzers that lighted up a bulb showing which team responded first.

The number and size of tubes in a given area of headsheet and their relative positions have much to do with the steaming qualities of boilers.

[…] the imagination if evil presently dresseth up this motion in that garb that best suiteth with the nature of the Sin. As if it be the Lust of Uncleanness, then is the Motion to sin drest up in all the imaginable pleasureableness of that Sin; if to Covetousness, then is the Sin drest up in the Profits and Honours that attend that Sin, and so of Theft and the like; but if the Motion be to swear, hector or the like, then is that Motion drest up with valour, and manliness: […] and thus being trimmed up like a Bartholomew Baby, it is presented to all the rest of the Powers of the Soul, where with joint consent it is admired and imbraced to the firing and inflaming all the Powers of the Soul.

[…] many of the metals also have been prepared by electrical means. If a dilute solution of a metal be electricalized, the metal is not deposited on the cathode; […]