Word: gerrish
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...committee are made up as follows: executive committee--J. J. Rowe '07, president; G. Lunt, New York University, secretary; G. Estee, Columbia, treasurer; C. Summer, Yale; A. B. Walsh, Princeton; F. C. Chapman, Cornell; S. E. Martin, Pennsylvania; advisory committee--T. Gerrish '01, C. T. Kirby, Columbia...
...following men will represent the various colleges in the Association. The executive committee-H. R. Geyelin, Pennsylvania, president; A. P. Payson, University of New York; W. G. Graves '06; F. Lage, Columbia; M. B. Sands, Yale; W. C. Motter, Princeton; L. R. Woodland, Cornell. The advisory committee-T. Gerrish '01, G. T. Kerby, Columbia...
...their own works we are indebted to Colonel T. W. Higginson, President Henry S. Pritchett, Professor A. B. Hart, Professor George Santayana, Rev. S. C. Beach, and Messrs. Ripley Hitchcock and Edwin S. Balch. Other volumes have been received from Messrs. H. P. Arnold '52, and John Brown Gerrish '71, who have been generous givers to the library in previous years, from Messrs. A. J. Hammerslough, G. H. Chase and Clarence Cary, and from a number of institutions and officials. Mr. George Blaney '07 has presented a set of Charles Dudley Warner's works, in 15 volumes. From the Signet...
...Gerrish, an assistant in the Observatory, has recently devised a system and code for use in the transmission of astronomical or other numerical data by telegraph. Since 1883 the University Observatory has been the official centre in the United States for the distribution of astronomical information; and the new system is the result of the experience gained during that period. A practical trial of it, conducted between Cambridge and Mt. Hamilton, California, developed no errors which could not be easily rectified...
Some of the advantages of Mr. Gerrish's system are its simplicity, the translation of numbers to and from the code without the use of a code book, and the possibility of detecting and correcting errors by inspection. The code itself is in reality a language of eleven words, each of which is a monosyllable of two letters. The series represents the ten digits with an eleventh character. In these monosyllables any one consonant is invariably associated with the same vowel and is never used in any other connection. The two letters thus form a combination which affords a means...