Word: mirror
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...term Harvard "a so and so college" is to limit the characterization to the point of fallacy. It were an economy of truth not to label it at all but to recognize that in such an institution the community of students is no more, no less, than a mirror of the world beyond the gates. Out task is to encourage others as we would anywhere. But let us have no more, pray, or privative characterization...
...souls! continue to obsess the undergraduate Extreme Left. In the very slender current issue of the Advocate we are blessed with a burlesque of Synge, a parallel sketch of "The Scottish Players," and, as a communication, a defence of "The Playboy." Acknowledging the fidelity of the Advocate as a mirror of what most engages the literary consciousness of undergraduates, when it is pointed out that an editorial paragraph discusses the Harvard Prize Play, and three other pages bristle with reviews of plays in Boston, this seems to be going a bit strong. Particularly as there is nothing else of special...
...Broken Mirror," last of a series of stories of Mme. Saumon's pension on Eliot street, is too obvious in plot and only near-English in style. The tone suggested by the first line, "Dulling their background like two pearls in a cabbage patch," is fortunately not maintained throughout. A sketch, Mr. Skinner's Indian tale "The Love of a Friend," is simple and good. Perhaps the Apache saying which heads it--"Any man can slay an enemy, but only an Apache is brave enough to kill a friend"--anticipates too much the conclusion...
...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 in the world. Many of the photographs which will be shown this evening were taken with the aid of this mirror...
...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...