Word: framing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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During the seventeenth and most of the eighteenth centuries the French novel portrayed a society with a common ideal. The Revolution, however, broke the frame of this social life, and after the storm was past, each class withdrew to its own circle. The first half of the nineteenth century is well shown by Balzac, with its ideal of commercial honor. But the "bourgeois" class has not been able to receive the rich foreigner as it would like, and only today are they beginning to study and appreciate the energetic, laborious and commercial society of the New World...
...small grand-stand has been built as an experiment near the baseball stands. The stand is built entirely of cement, supported by a steel frame, and is of the type which it is hoped to put up on the football field, if this experiment proves a success...
...authority of this committee the following committee was appointed in December to frame a constitution: W. R. Thayer '81, chairman; J. J. Storrow '85, R. C. Bolling '00, J. W. Hallowell '01, H. B. Clark '01. In drawing up this constitution for the Union, a careful examination was made of the regulations which govern Houston Hall at the University of Pennsylvania, and the similar organizations in English universities. The constitution upon its completion was submitted to the original Committee on Regulations. By them it has been referred for amendment and final approval to a larger committee. This consists, in addition...
...every night from sunset to sunrise to take photographs of different parts of the sky. During the day these plates are developed in the observatory dark room, by a mechanical method, recently devised by a member of the department. Twelve plates are placed at one time in a brass frame, which is kept in vertical motion by the action of a large pendulum. As the object is to get the faintest details, rather than the artistic effect of lights and shadows all plates are treated as if under exposed. In this way twenty-four plates may be developed simultaneously without...
...Pierce Building on Holmes Field has now reached the level of the third floor on the south wing, and much of the work o' setting the frame, stone window and door casings, and other finish, has been accomplished...