Word: curiously
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...curious mistake in former years of not allowing for the number of duplicates rejected, sold or exchanged, volumes worn out, and books transferred to other departments, the total number of books in the College Library (Gore Hall) has been reported each year far in excess of fact, so that an error of about 24,000 volumes has accumulated. A recount made last fall, however, shows the corrected total of volumes to be 387,097, while the whole number of books in the University libraries...
...light of long experience which a rare sympathy and understanding have made of the highest value. The essays are frank, forceful in their simplicity, full of humor, pointing out vividly the influences which work for the undermining of character or for its ennoblement, and revealing the folly of the curious idea that young men benefit from dabblings in vices. The book will be of much interest to Harvard men, but it should be most gladly welcomed by those who will find in it a little piece of the personality which it has not been given them to know more intimately...
...circular was issued Saturday by Professor E. C. Pickering, in which he announces the first successes ever made in photographing the spectrum of a lightning flash. Comparison of the three negatives obtained at different times in the months of July and September shows the curious fact that the spectrum of lightning is not always the same. The spectrum of the flash closely resembles that of the new star, the Nova Persei. The apparatus was the same as is used in obtaining photographs of the spectra of stars and the success of the experiment, it is expected, will open...
...unconventional and impressive, in wording dignified and strong. "The Song of the Brook," on the contrary, has neither marked originality nor beauty of phrasing to recommend it. Through the "Requiem"-on the death of President McKinley-runs sincerity of though, but, unfortunately, it is incorporated into a curious jogging, jingling rhythm mor eappropriate to a description of a sleigh-ride, for instance, than to a poem on a serious and dignified subject. "English Light Verse of the Nineteenth Century," by H. L. Warner, is the longest article in the number. The writer begins by defining "light verse" as verse "pitched...
...whole period of the Reconstruction of the Southern States after the Civil War is, especially in the North, comparatively little known. The "Ku Klux Klan," a secret fraternity organized to oppose the carpet bag politicians and to prevent the dominance of the negroes, was a society unique and curious in its aims and work, and an account of it, as well as of the state of southern politics from which it arose, is full of most dramatic interest. Mr. Brown is well qualified to deal with his subject from the Southern and therefore the most intimate point of view...