Question: CHAPTER IV 

In the morning following Aline's visit to Joan Valentine, Ashe sat in his room, the Morning Post on the table before him. The heady influence of Joan had not yet ceased to work within him; and he proposed, in pursuance of his promise to her, to go carefully through the columns of advertisements, however pessimistic he might feel concerning the utility of that action. 

His first glance assured him that the vast fortunes of the philanthropists, whose acquaintance he had already made in print, were not yet exhausted. Brian MacNeill still dangled his gold before the public; so did Angus Bruce; so did Duncan Macfarlane and Wallace Mackintosh and Donald MacNab. They still had the money and they still wanted to give it away. 

Ashe was reading listlessly down the column when, from the mass of advertisements, one of an unusual sort detached itself. 

WANTED: Young Man of good appearance, who is poor and reckless, to undertake a delicate and dangerous enterprise. Good pay for the right man. Apply between the hours of ten and twelve at offices of Mainprice, Mainprice & Boole, 3, Denvers Street, Strand. 

And as he read it, half past ten struck on the little clock on his mantelpiece. It was probably this fact that decided Ashe. If he had been compelled to postpone his visit to the offices of Messrs. Mainprice, Mainprice & Boole until the afternoon, it is possible that barriers of laziness might have reared themselves in the path of adventure; for Ashe, an adventurer at heart, was also uncommonly lazy. As it was, however, he could make an immediate start.  1. Who was being visited?
2. Who was reading?
3. What was wanted?
4. For what?
5. Who was influencing?
6. What time of day?
7. What time did the clock chime?
8. Was he very active?
9. When could he apply?
10. What chapter is this?
11. Was he employed?
12. Where was his clock? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Joan Valentine
2. Ashe
3. good looking man
4. to do a dangerous job
5. Joan
6. In the morning
7. half past ten
8. No
9. between the hours of ten and twelve
10. Four
11. No
12. mantelpiece


Question: CHAPTER XIII 

IN WHICH SOME SHOES ARE MISSING 

"What do you think of it?" 

"Who took them?" 

"We can't go downstairs in our bare feet." 

Such were some of the remarks made, as the lads of dormitories Nos. 11 and 12 looked at each other. The closets had been searched thoroughly but without success. 

"See here, if anybody in these rooms hid those shoes, I want to know it!" demanded Sam, gazing around sharply. 

"I hardly think a fellow would hide his own shoes, too," answered Luke. 

"He might,--just to hide his own guilt." 

"I believe this is the work of some outsider," declared Dave. "Most likely Nat Poole and his crowd." 

"By Jove, Dave, I believe you are right!" exclaimed Phil. "It would be just like them to do it, if they got the chance." 

"Did you say Nat Poole?" queried Shadow, scratching his head thoughtfully. 

"I did. Most likely Nat heard of our feast, and it made him extra sore to think we were having a good time and he wasn't invited." 

"That is true, and I guess----" Shadow stopped short, and a curious look crossed his face. 

"What is it, Shadow? Do you know anything of this?" asked Roger. 

"Why, I--er--that is, I had a dream last night," stammered the story-teller of the school. "Or, maybe it wasn't a dream after all," he went on, in confusion. 

"See here, Shadow, have you been sleep-walking again, and did you make off with our shoes?" demanded Phil. He remembered only too well how poor Shadow was addicted to walking in his sleep, and how he had once walked off with a valuable collection of rare postage stamps belonging to Doctor Clay.  1. What is missing?
2. Where do the owners of the shoes live?
3. Who do they think may have taken the shoes?
4. Are they part of the group?
5. What would have made Nat jealous?
6. Was he invited?
7. Do they think he might have found out about it?
8. How does Sam feel about the situation?
9. Does he have a kind look on his face?
10. Who was he looking at? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. shoes
2. dormitories Nos. 11 and 12
3. at Poole and his crowd.
4. no
5. our feast,
6. no
7. Most likely
8. He wanted to know who took them
9. No, he was gazing around sharply
10. everyone one around


Question: A system is a regularly interacting or interdependent group of items forming a unified whole. Every system is delineated by its spatial and temporal boundaries, surrounded and influenced by its environment, described by its structure and purpose and expressed in its functioning. 

The term "system" comes from the Latin word "systēma", in turn from Greek "systēma": "whole concept made of several parts or members, system", literary "composition". 

According to Marshall McLuhan, 

"System" means "something to look at". You must have a very high visual gradient to have systematization. But in philosophy, prior to Descartes, there was no "system". Plato had no "system". Aristotle had no "system". In the 19th century the French physicist Sadi Carnot, who studied thermodynamics, pioneered the development of the concept of a "system" in the natural sciences. In 1824 he studied the system which he called the "working substance" (typically a body of water vapor) in steam engines, in regards to the system's ability to do work when heat is applied to it. The working substance could be put in contact with either a boiler, a cold reservoir (a stream of cold water), or a piston (to which the working body could do work by pushing on it). In 1850, the German physicist Rudolf Clausius generalized this picture to include the concept of the surroundings and began to use the term "working body" when referring to the system. 1. What is the Latin word for system?
2. What about in Greek?
3. Who came up with the idea of a system in the natural sciences?
4. When did he do this?
5. What did he do for a living?
6. His specialty?
7. What is his nationality?
8. When was his idea generalized?
9. By who?
10. What kind of work did he do?
11. Was he French too?
12. What was he?
13. What did he refer to the system as? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers:
1. Tsystema
2. systema
3. Sadi Carnot
4. 19th century
5. he was a physicist
6. thermodynamics
7. French
8. 1850
9. Rudolf Clausius
10. he was a physicist
11. no
12. German
13. "working body"