Word: maine
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Education should, especially in a higher institution, have as little as possible to do with compulsion. The Union is merely one of the side-shows of this educational institution. Must we be compelled to pay ten cents extra for the side-show, when the price of admission to the main tent has just been raised from $1.50 to $2? Much compulsion is bad for the pulse...
...relay work this winter, will be trained for the low hurdles. A. E. Rowse, Jr., '18 and F. S. Allen '16 will practice for this event also. In the 120-yard high hurdles, L. M. Pratt '18, H. J. Coolidge '16, and L. B. Means '18 will be the main contestants. R. W. Stanley '17 will strengthen this event considerably if he can get off probation...
...Italian and two Flemish paintings have just been placed on exhibition in the main gallery of the Fogg Art Museum. The Italian picture is called "The Magdalen" and is the work of the distinguished provincial artist, Alessandro Bonvicino (1498-1554), called Moretto da Brescia. This picture is particularly interesting because it suggests certain Venetian types and at the same time illustrates so well a technical quality that marks the difference between the Venetian and Brescian art of the High Renaissance. Hero, as in so many of the best examples of the art of Brescia, there is harmony of cool silvery...
...require responsibility on the part of the company which the latter has found impossible to assume. Older than 28, the applicants seem to grow dissatisfied to be in the same class with younger men. The term of the school is from three to four months. It meets in the main offices of the company, 26 Broadway, New York City. Directors and managers of the company give talks and read papers on phases of the oil business and there is also a considerable amount of supplementary practical work. During the progress of the training course each student receives $17.50 per week...
...twenty-one foot concave grating, together with other apparatus necessary for the study of problems in spectrum analysis and magneto optics. The electric current used in this work is furnished by a storage battery recently established in the old engine house at the eastern end of the main building. The whole equipment is as good as any in this country. It is at present employed in a study of the relation of the Zeeman effect to spectral series. The central portion of the basement is devoted to storage and to a number of small research rooms used by Professor Davis...