Word: almanacs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...President Thomas Hill, of Harvard College, has prepared an almanac for 1884, in which the computations have been made according to the new Eastern standard time. [Times...
...about time for the representatives of Yale and Harvard colleges to come here and agree upon the preliminaries of the race to be rowed next summer. To be sure they know what the course is, know the race is to be rowed here, and by consultation with Daboll's almanac could decide on the day and hour without coming here, but they always come and we are always glad to see them come. By the way, when the river is bridged at the point what are we going to do with the race course? It will spoil the finish...
...Wednesday evening last, Prof. Simon Newcourt, president of the Washington Philosophical Society and editor of the Nautical Almanac, gave an interesting lecture before the Institute Society of Arts, on the advantages of a mathematical education...
...York World has sent us two most amusing little pamphlets, "The World's Almanac for 1879" and "Archibald the Cat." we recommend the first especially to our readers, who can hardly fail to buy it when we tell them that it contains many more of those amusing fables which the World published last year...
...beginning of the year is always a time of leisure. No one pretends to study, for in an elective system, as in a horse-race at a county fair, no one takes the course until after a dozen false starts. This is the time, as the college almanac says, to get in your early Bowdoin dissertations. Take a quire of the best letter-paper, and rule off a wide inch of the margin. Write with the blackest of ink very plainly, and give special attention to punctuation. A piece without other points is often saved by punctuation...