Word: furnishers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Freshman competition for the photographic department will also last 11 weeks. Candidates in this competition need not have: had any previous experience nor is it necessary for them to furnish their own cameras. Men with no knowledge of photography will receive instruction and so will be at no disadvantage...
...Yale team received its first test in New York Saturday night against Georgetown and Boston College. Georgetown broke the indoor record, covering the distance in 7.46 while Yale finished a poor third. This poor showing should not furnish the University any ground for optimism, since last year's two-mile relay was clocked in 8.11. Had the record breaking Georgetown team run the University at the B. A. A. last year it would have won by over...
...thoroughly delightful essay on "Books" Emerson makes the very pointed comment that "Meanwhile the colleges, whilst they provide us with libraries, furnish no professor of books; and, I think, no chair is so much wanted." Anyone who has penetrated the barriers and has seen the stacks upon stacks of volumes in Widener, and has, like Emerson, computed the hours it would take him to read the books in even one corner of that mammoth collection will recognize the present truth of this half-century old observation. In other matters Emerson often had a prophetic insight. So far the remedy...
...returned to the interferometer simultaneously. Every time there was interference, light fringes and dark lines supporting both the Einstein theory and the ether drift theory. More accurate observations are still to be made, but Mr. Michelson said in conclusion, referring to Einstein: "There is no question that the tests furnish another striking confirmation of his brilliant work...
...opinions upon the Court. Neither does it specifically forbid such opinions. When Washington was President, he inquired of the Court whether a treaty made with Louis XVI of France was binding after the Revolutionary Government had taken over that country. Chief Justice John Jay declined to have the Court furnish an opinion because it was not a litigated case. Later, Virginia and Kentucky passed resolutions of nullification; and Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton appealed to the Supreme Court for a decision. Again it refused to speak. A third appeal was made by President Monroe who asked, apropos...