Word: eying
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...important work which must be carried on by the separate efforts of many persons who need not be experts in astronomy or possessors of large telescopes. Many observations are indeed needed which can best be made with an opera-glass or field-glass, or even with the naked eye. Professional observers would no doubt make these observations better than others, but such observers can rarely find time to make them; whereas useful contributions can be made by unskilled persons, provided that they are capable of identifying a star with accuracy. These observations relate to what are known as variable stars...
When the Princeton man caught the ball Hull of Yale choked him with great ardor. Other Princeton men and other Yale men came up and took a hand in it, and the impulse of the moment, changing sides, affected a Princeton man, who slugged a Yale man in the eye. The Yale man, after a few words, sat up, rubbed his eye, got on his feet and resumed the game. He seemed to cherish no resentment...
...history of Bowdoin College, Professor A. S. Packard says he remembers Hawthorne as he looked in the recitation room, "with the same shy, gentle bearing, black, drooping, full, inquisitive eye, and low, musical voice that he ever had;" and Longfellow, sitting two seats behind Hawthorne a fair-haired youth, blooming with health and early promise...
...Completing the work of the small meridian photometer. During three years this instrument has been used in measuring the light of all the stars visible to the naked eye. There have been nearly a hundred thousand of these measurements, being the largest piece of photometric work ever accomplished. A large instrument of the same form has been constructed, and, with it, it is proposed to examine and determine the light of some nine thousand stars...
James Parton's new lecture is entitled "The Coming Man's Education." It begins: "I have in my mind's eye a glorious university, completely organized and equipped to afford an education such as the future man will be given. It looks not at all like Oxford or Cambridge, or even like Harvard. It looks more like a factory village situated in the midst of a finely cultivated farm of one thousand acres, with beautiful gardens and parks, the whole the centre of a thriving industry such as our factory villages might be, must be, shall and are just going...