Word: chain
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...School will be given next year. Metallurgy 8, a half course during the first half year, on the teaching processes, for gold and silver ores, will be given by Mr. C. H. White. Mr. Raymer will conduct course 17 on mine surveying and the general principles of underground and chain surveying. There will be work on the construction of maps, sections and models. The course is to be a half course during the second half year. Courses 2 and 3 will not be open to candidates for the degree of A.B. next year, but course 9 will be open...
...regular routine of work has been carried on at the Harvard Observatory during the summer, and little of particular interest has occurred. The principal event has been the photographing of the spectrum of chain lightning by means of a spectroscope and large telescope attached to a camera. Several of these photographs turned out very well, and are probably the first successful ones of the kind ever taken...
...must fall before the strictest psychological research. In reality the brain vibrations themselves set the nerves in motion, and in the circle from the sense vibrations to the resulting bodily movements consciousness nowhere enters in. Consciousness is not aroused by brain action, it is not a link in the chain of physical sensations and it need not perish when the physical brain is dead...
Three courses of practical work were carried on this summer, an elementary course in plane surveying and two advanced courses in railroad and geodetic surveying. The freshman course, covering the full seven weeks of the period in camp, was spent in running level lines, making chain, azimuth and compass surveys, laying out mining claims, taking soundings, and in plotting the country by the plane table, and transit and stadia methods. Besides the field work a day or two was set aside every week for computing and drawing maps...