Word: mirror
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...speak for the students' Harvard. One incongruity that has crept in of late years might well be abolished--namely, the practice of having books and the other college publications reviewed by members of the Faculty instead of by the students themselves. If the paper is to be a mirror of undergraduate opinions, it must not make an exception of the department of literary criticism...
...reflecting telescope, the largest of its kind in the world, is now being installed in the Observatory. Its mirror, which was purchased from the estate of Dr. A. A. Common of Ealing, England, in 1904, is five inches thick, has a diameter of five feet, and weighs over half a ton. Three months of continuous work were spent in shaping the mirror from the rough disc, and 410,000 strokes of the polishing machine were needed to give it the required smoothness. The preparation of the site was begun September 28, 1904, and the remounting has since gone on slowly...
...object are reflected up through the open air and carried through a tube in the outer wall of the observing room to the eye-piece. Light from an object under observation undergoes three reflections before it reaches the observer. It is first received by the 60-inch mirror at the bottom of the tube, which throws it up to a second small mirror mounted centrally within and near the end of the tube. The second mirror returns the light down the tube to a third mirror, and by this it is reflected through the air to the eye-piece...
...Mirror of the Sea," by J. Conrad...
...Lamp--"Tate Wilkinson's Mirror," by R. Bergengren...