Word: evenness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Association began its work this fall by sending to all members of the present Freshman class the small hand-book, containing information about the religious societies and the different organizations in college. Over seventeen hundred copies were distributed in this way and at the beginning of the year, but even that number was insufficient to meet the demand. During the week preceding the day of registration, an information bureau was opened in Holden Chapel, where several members of the association were present daily to welcome and assist new students. A list of three hundred boarding places was carefully prepared, thus...
...number of students attending the Bussey Institution this year is less than it has been for several years, owing to the falling off in interest in landscape gardening. A few men, however, come in even as late as Christmas. A new course is given this year by Mr. Morse on Natural History from an agricultural point of view, and more special attention is being given to Mr. Watson's course in landscape gardening. It shows the value of trees and shrubs for ornamental purposes, and instructs in practical greenhouse work...
...tolerant of others' views, or more ready to receive suggestions and evidence. Knowing well the nature of all investigation, his views were always in a plastic state. Whatever conclusions he reached were only working hypotheses to be altered by the next discovery. He had also an infinite patience with even the errors of those who wished to learn, and great acumen in discovering the exact misconception that caused the error. His style of exposition was con cise and clear, with a certain quaintness proceeding from a delicate sense of humor so subtle as hardly to be recognized except...
...three crews were even until the last few strokes, when Bancroft's boat spurted ahead four feet. Harding's crew came in second, with Hodges's six feet behind. The time was 5 minutes fiat...
...work which he gave to the revision of Lewis's (known as Harper's) Latin Lexicon, which, according to the editors preface, bears throughout the marks of his skill and critical scholarship. One of his smallest works, the pamphlet on Latin Proununciation, has indeed worked a revolution which even the learning of a Munro could never even begin in England...