Word: objects
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...optical parts of the telescope are three-the eye-piece, the object glass, which is twelve inches in diameter and a plain mirror of eighteen inches in diameter, set in front of the object glass. Focal length is sixteen and a half feet. The telescope tube is rested permanently upon two stone piers, one near each end, and twelve feet apart. About five feet of the length of the tube projects into the observatory building and the remainder is out of doors...
...novel and most important feature of the telescope is the mirror. This is polsed or hinged so that it may be set at whatever angle is necessary for reflecting the object of study into the telescope field; but there is this strict limit of the range of observation, that the object must be at or near to meridian. For the contemplated uses of the instrument this limitation is not regarded as a disadvantage, as the meridian position of an object is always best for observation because there the atmospheric obstruction is least. By varying the angle at which the mirror...
...English department has requested all members of the freshman class taking English A to hand in an account of their preparation in English at the various fitting schools. The object is to find out whether the preparation is inadequate or the entrance examinations too difficult, as a large number of freshmen have been conditioned in English...
...exhaust it. When his topic has become exhausted, the knowledge of experience becomes essential; he can tell from the scale of fish everything science tells us about the fish; from a chip he can recognize a Greek statue; from a bone he can draw the skeleton. In fine, his object is to make the part reflect the whole. To this tendency of the German towards specialization is due the rise of comparative history, comparative art, religion, philology, jurisprudence, etc. In philosophy also the German has done noble work; he treats it psychologically, and not as the Greek did, auto-logically...
...meeting is announced for tonight of all those interested or who were at any time members of Phillips Exeter Academy. The object is the formation of an Exeter Club. It is to be hoped that there will be an attendance of all the Exeter men in college. Almost all the large preparatory schools except Exeter have flourishing representative clubs at Harvard, but although there has been much said about the formation of an Exeter Club, the graduates of that school, up to two weeks ago, had not seen fit to interest themselves in the matter. An opportunity is now offered...