Word: offing
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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And may meet with the approbation of all."
The Spectrum, an unpretending paper, published at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, made its first appearance just after our second number. It seems hardly strong enough to have a long life, but by careful nursing it may grow and flourish. It wisely ascribes its paternity, not to the whole Institute...
There was much difficulty and discussion before the name which it now bears could be decided upon. This we learn from decidedly the best piece of poetry in it, two verses of which we give to illustrate their tribulations as well as the quality of the poetry.
'The Transit,' says Brown of seventy-five,
Engineeringy is good! Moreover, it is only one of those words which impart such a vague flavor of Physics and Mathematics to the whole number. The column headed "Spectrum Lines" shows conclusively that the editor's "lines have not fallen in pleasant places," for the wit and point in its...