Word: explains
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Camera Club, several lectures on subjects connected with photography will be given during the year. Mr. M. D. Miller will give the first of these lectures next Wednesday evening, at 8 o'clock, in the Fogg Lecture Room. His subject will be "The Manufacture of Lenses." He will explain, with stereopticon illustrations, the processes in lens making from the raw material to the finished product...
...birth of Ralph Waldo Emerson, in the New Lecture Hall last night. The subject was "Emerson as a Philosopher," and the lecture consisted chiefly of an explanation and appreciation of Emerson's philosophy. The general opinion of philosophers and scientists until recently favored materialism which attempts to explain all things by mechanical laws of cause and effect and which emphasizes body, not mind. Philosophic opinion is now, however, beginning to favor idealism, which believes many things above mechanical law and which emphasizes mind rather than body. Emerson was thoroughly inclined to this belief of idealism and he is consequently...
...there seems to be some doubt about the meaning of the rules under which the series is conducted, they have been reprinted below with several small changes designed to explain doubtful points. These rules will be strictly enforced...
...Clipston Sturgis '81 will lecture under the auspices of the Pen and Brush Club tomorrow night, on "Methods of Architectural Rendering." He will explain the various methods of water color, crayon, pen and ink, and pencil work, and will illustrate his talk by many examples of his own rendering. Mr. Sturgis is one of the foremost of Boston architects, and is at present engaged on plans for the new Art Museum...
...clock today Professor W. M. Davis will explain the use of the Foucicault pendulum hung in the well of the staircase from the roof of the geological wing of the University Museum. He will show how the latitude may be determined by the apparent deviation of the pendulum from its plane of swinging which is caused by the rotation of the earth...