Word: circularity
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...bronze tablet is to be placed in the Capitol at Washington to mark the place where John Quincy Adams fell in his last illness. The tablet will be circular in form and will bear the inscription, "John Q. Adams, February 21, 1848," around the edge, and the word "Here" in the centre...
...observatory is to have a new meridian photometer to measure stars of the eighth to the thirteenth magnitude. The telescopic objective is to be one foot in diameter, and the circular mirror used to reflect the stars into the telescope will weigh 75 pounds. Alvin Clark and Sons are at present making plans for the photometer...
...York Harvard Club, through its committee on literature and art, has issued a circular calling for contributions of Harvard memorabilia for the club library. The object of the committee is to secure complete sets of all reports by committees appointed by the college, of all reports of the president and treasurer in all departments of the college, files of college publications, catalogues of societies, class-day and commencement programmes, tickets, etc. For purposes of exchange duplicates will be welcomed. The call is signed by Luigi Monti, Albert H. Cutler, and Evart Jansen Wendell...
...which such supplies should be carefully distributed or lent to persons who need them. In particular a lending library of text-books is proposed by the aid of which men could avoid the expense of buying some of the books used in college courses. Accordingly in April last a circular was sent to a number of men in college. The purpose at the present time is to remind those men of that circular and to bring the matter before the whole college. Any members of the University who have any material which could be useful to other students, and which...
...committee of the faculty has been compelled to send a third time for the answers of some hundred and fifty men who have not yet responded to their circular. Whatever has been the motive of the men who have not yet answered the circular, they all deserve to have their names posted. It is hardly conceivable that there are one hundred and fifty men in college who have no regard for the demands of common courtesy, not to speak of interest in the good of the college. One more day remains before the report of the committee goes to print...