Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...lawyer, the President admitted that perhaps he might lay too much stress upon observance of the Constitution as a sacred and unimpeachable document. But he believed that the instrument which had been tried and found good for so many years, as the foundation of our government, should not lightly be cast aside. Only when the people, after mature deliberation, have decided that a change is necessary and wise, should the Constitution be altered. We will never go far astray if we adhere strictly to the fundamentals of that work which Gladstone rightly called the greatest single document ever struck from...
...University activity are men more drawn together than when rehearsing and playing under the same leader, for the essential factor of orchestral success is the co-operation and harmony of the individual players. Every man in the University who is acquainted or desires to become acquainted with any orchestral instrument will be welcome at the trials this evening or tomorrow. C. S. PARKER...
Professor Ritchey graduated from the University of Cincinnati in 1887. Between 1896 and 1899 he was superintendent of instrument construction at the Yerkes Observatory. He resigned this position in 1899 to become assistant professor of astronomy at the University of Chicago, where he stayed until 1904. Since January 1, 1909, he has been in charge of the construction of the 100-inch reflecting telescope at the Carnegie Solar Observatory, which is on the top of Mt. Wilson, 6.00 feet above the sea. He cast the famous 60-inch telescopic mirror at the observatory, which is the largest of its kind...
...great sixty-inch mirror of the observatory is the work of Professor Ritchey, and the lecture will be illustrated by the most recent and remarkable photographs taken with that instrument...
...officiis members provided for in the constitution submitted, if it were accepted, would be the most logical body through which to make the necessary nominations. And next we are arraigned upon a quibble for inconsistency, a charge to which we are exposed by the very inconsistency of the new instrument itself, for while it proposes in its preamble to accomplish certain ends by "direct jurisdiction over individual students," no such powers are mentioned in the "Powers of the Council," nor are they granted in fact...