Word: mille
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Best general references: Fortnightly review, LIII, 440; Nineteentth Century, XXVII, 553; National Review, XVI, 496; Contemporary Review, LVII, 240; Public Opinion, VII, 50, 312; IX, 77, 104; X, 251; J. S. Mill, Pol. Econ., I, Ch. 15; Stimson, American Statute...
...Hollis St. Theatre Monday evening, "Blue Jeans" made its first appearance before a Boston audience. It is familiarly known as "the buzz-saw play" since the leading feature of this comedy drama is the mill scene of the third act in which a buzz-saw is introduced and plays an important part. The old familiar adage "Do not monkey with the buzz-saw," taken both in its figurative and literal sense, seems to be the moral inculcated by this play...
Best General References: Spencer's Social Statistics, ch. IX; Progress and Poverty; American Soc. Sci. Ass'n, Report for 1890; Ricardo's chapters on rent; Mill...
...hundred members of the New York Harvard Club were present at the twenty-fifth annual dinner in New York Friday night. The dinner was held at Delmonico's. In the absence of President Eliot Professor James Mill Pierce spoke for Harvard University. Dr. Francis Peabody and Dr. John O. Sargent of the class of '30 sent regrets at not being able to be present and the last named sent three odes composed for the occasion. In introducing Dr. Storrs, Toast-master King spoke about Harvard's giving him a degree and said: If Harvard is anything she is cosmopolitan. When...
...assaying of ores. The work here consists of lectures and recitations, besides practical work. The practical work includes the testing of reagents and small samples of ore, practice on methods, and special work to familiarize the student with sampling large lots of ore, and to give practice in mill and furnace assays. To facilitate the assays of ores of the precious metals, a system of weights has been introduced, by which the weight of the silver or gold globule obtained shows at once, without calculation, the number of Troy ounces in a ton of ore. To furnish necessary facilities...