Word: grandest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...strongest she has ever sent down, as there is more work being done in this branch of athletics than ever before. A desperate effort will be made to bring home the cup. The struggle between Brooks, Yale's champion runner, and Wendell Baker of Harvard, will be the grandest thing ever seen in an inter-collegiate contest of this kind. They will probably meet in the 220 and 440 yards races, in the half-mile and perhaps in the mile. Baker holds the records, but Brooks is so close to him that the betting will be even as to which...
With nearly two hundred courses in subjects ranging from Semitic to Natural History, it seems strange that one study, of interest to every one, should be almost entirely neglected. We refer to that grandest of sciences, astronomy. We know that there is a course given in college, set down in the elective pamphlet as Mathematics XII, which treats of "descriptive and epherical astronomy." Doubtless many students might like to elect the course if it were not for the fact that a knowledge of spherical trigonometry and differential calculus is required. But it is not the mathematical technicalities which we want...
...editorial columns or by our correspondents, will be considered. The value of the sciences is fast becoming recognized, but our scientific department, although, perhaps, in some respects the strongest in college, will never be fully equipped until it offers to the students an elementary course in one of the grandest of the sciences, astronomy. It is with amazement that one in looking over one hundred and eighty, or more, courses fails to find even the mention of this almost subline study. We feel sure that a course in this science, conducted in the manner of the elementary course in geology...
...magnificent production. It is made of marble and of course is an exact production of the bust in Westminster. As a work of art, the bust is superb, admirable as a likeness and composed of marble that is without a flaw. It shows the poet in his grandest form, the pose is easy and natural, and being a little larger than life to allow for its being slightly elevated, the effect is absolutely noble. The opinion concerning the bust is that as a work of art it is excelled by none other in the Abbey, and is the chef...
...would desire to take. Yet we feel that there is something lacking, and that, too, in what we consider one of our strongest departments, that of Natural Science. In the elective pamphlet there is not to be found mention of a single course in one of the grandest of our sciences, Astronomy. Turning to the catalogue under the head of "The Astronomical Observatory," we find this statement: "Any one properly qualified to pursue the study of practical astronomy may be admitted to the Observatory as a student." But what is meant by "properly qualified?" It goes...