Word: common
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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MODERN LANGUAGE CONFERENCE. "Certain Julius Caesar Plays." Mr. H. M. Ayres. "Relations of England and Scandinavia in Literature and History during the Middle Ages." Mr. H. G. Leach. Common Room, Conant Hall...
...reflecting telescope, the largest of its kind in the world, is now being installed in the Observatory. Its mirror, which was purchased from the estate of Dr. A. A. Common of Ealing, England, in 1904, is five inches thick, has a diameter of five feet, and weighs over half a ton. Three months of continuous work were spent in shaping the mirror from the rough disc, and 410,000 strokes of the polishing machine were needed to give it the required smoothness. The preparation of the site was begun September 28, 1904, and the remounting has since gone on slowly...
...plan of supporting the telescope in position is the same as that devised by Dr. Common, but changes have been made in method of observation and mechanism of control. Instead of being mounted on pedestals of cast iron, cement or masonry firmly built into the ground, as most large telescopes are, it rests on a great hollow cylinder immersed in a tank of water. A tank lined with thick walls of solid concrete was first sunk in the ground, and in this receptacle, ballasted with about 10 tons of iron at its lower end, floats the steel cylinder forming...
...April number of the Harvard Law Review which has just appeared, contains the following articles: "Common Law and Legislations," by R. Pound: "The Test of Conversion," by G. L. Clark: "Uniformity of Law in the Several States of an American Ideal: I, Case Law," by W. Schofield...
MODERN LANGUAGE CONFERENCE. "The New Fragments of Menander." "Dictys Cretensis in Greek." Professor Harris. Common Room, Conant Hall...