Word: coverings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Mercantile Law at University of Pennsylvania covers the usages and methods of business, the management of property and the administration of trusts and is supplemented by an exposition of the leading principles of the Common Law. The text book is Parson's Laws of Business. Both Columbia and University of Michigan give similar courses. Why the faculty here have not introduced an elective to cover this subject pursued in other colleges, when the beast of Harvard has been always to take the lead in political science, as a matter of deep concern. Of the advantages of such a course...
...Harvard Advocate is one of the best written, best arranged and printed college papers. Its columns are always well filled with very readable matter. We are glad to see that the Advocate still retains the old cover instead of adopting the new style of many hued cover now so much in vogue. - Trinity Tablet...
...Sargent is writing the report of the Athletic Committee which is to be delivered to the faculty at their meeting to morrow afternoon. It will cover the whole of the year 1885, and will especially discuss the matter of the employment of a coach by the crew and the foot-ball question. It is expected that the faculty will then decide whether inter-collegiate foot-ball will be allowed next fall...
...grinding and the polishing are done as follows: In the first place the curves of the lens are determined by experiments with smaller models, aided, of course, by the maker's long experience. Then an iron disk, large enough to-cover the glass, is made into a concave shape exactly corresponding to the desired convexity of the lens, thus, in reality forming a species of mould. This disk, which by the way is called the "tool," is placed on the glass, and by a simple mechanical device is made to rotate upon it. When the grinding is completed...
...this Lampoon is exceedingly pleasing to us, - we believe it will be so to the college, - because from cover to cover, there appears not the slightest reference to the "Crime...