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...editors, however, have left unfulfilled the second part of their goal: that of recording "experience" and of having their publication cast "a light in its own right, a sort of headlamp throwing parts of mental landscape into severe relief." The catholicity of the book itself precludes effective discrimination. But more important, one misses a sense of perceptivity in their comments on the lecture system, on work outside the classroom, on the honors system or on tutorial. The writers have remained content as scribes with no ambition to be analysts. There is no reason why men who have studied the community...

Author: By Alfred FRIENDLY Jr., | Title: 323 | 5/13/1959 | See Source »

...real man in Osage can handle in the dark-gutted the town's biggest building, the 17-room school. Sheriff Charles J. Whiston, 42, quickly reinforced by squads of FBI men, found that the bomb had been set off by mining detonation wire, which would work from the headlamp battery a miner wears on his hip, went to work on such fragmentary other clues as a snagged thread from a pair of blue jeans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Reading & 'Riting & Rubble | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

Better Head Lamp. After four years of joint research, a group of auto headlamp manufacturers has produced a brighter, sealed-beam lamp, with redesigned lens and hooded filament that throw the beam more to the right side of the road and screen out stray lights above the beam pattern. The new sealed-beam unit fits current models. Price: about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Nov. 8, 1954 | 11/8/1954 | See Source »

...study reveals the inadequacy of present head-lighting for drivers observing moderate and legal speeds," he said. "It is clear that under existing headlamp regulations they cannot always see safely." Adjustment of the regulations to permit higher candle power would contribute toward the, reduction of traffic accidents at night, Roper stated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 20-Watt Increase in Head Light Power, Would Decrease Danger of Night Driving, Expert Says | 2/24/1938 | See Source »

...present there are six large locomotive bells from old engines, and an old kerosene headlamp four feet high which was found last year in Profile Notch, N. H. Other relics are five oldstyle ventilators from car number 7 of the Boston and Lowell railroad, an oil can used on one of the early engines, a group of switch keys, instruments used in surveying the Boston and Lowell railroad and the original surveys, which are very valuable, the first rail of that road, and a large watering pot with two glasses which was used in the '80's to provide drinking...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 12/5/1928 | See Source »

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