Word: handbooks
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What Leonardo had in mind, apparently, was to produce a handbook on the operating principles of machinery, and not - as an earlier guild mechanic might have done it - simply a compendium of useful gadgets. This, as Art Historian Ludwig Heydenreich argues, was a turning point in the history of engineering itself. If Leonardo's designs had been made public instead of resting in his notebooks, they would certainly have transformed the extremely crude face of Renaissance mechanics, bringing it to the pitch of sophistication the Chinese had reached four centuries earlier. That did not happen...
Some students would dispute that the meals they are served represent "the utmost in excellent food"--the goal set by the food services in Hall's administrative handbook. And given the continuing inflation with which every household must contend, students expecting this year's $80 board hike to improve the quality of their meals should probably expect to be disappointed...
IMPEACHMENT: A HANDBOOK by CHARLES L BLACK JR. 90 pages. Yale University Press. $5.95. $1.95 paperback...
Over 50 graduate students have formed a Harvard Radical Union and are meeting this week to discuss organizing study groups and a handbook for next year's entering GSAS students...
...small group of students from the Union met yesterday to plan a handbook that will be distributed to first-year students at registration next year. Stark said that the book would include information on financing, admission, the position of teaching fellows, and a critique of education at Harvard...