Word: periodic
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...experiences in Alaska, in the region of the Fjords. After spending some weeks of careful geological study in that country, Professor Shaler returned to the forest region of the northwestern portion of the United States and made investigations concerning the history of the forest movement after the glacial period. This work was really one of compilation, as Professor Shaler has been studying this region for about forty years...
...took them in the tent. In the late afternoon, under favorable conditions, the University crew went over the four-mile course. The boat was still unsteady, tending to fall over to starboard and hitching somewhat between strokes. McGrew showed ability to put up the stroke, raising it at one period to 36. In the last half mile the crew steadied down and were rowing in their best form at the finish. The men finished strong. The time...
Another defect of the plan is that a body of trustees responsible only to public opinion is created for a purpose very uncommon in trusteeships: trustees frequently have the care of real estate and sometimes carry on business for a brief period while closing up an estate; but the proposition before us is that a self-perpetuating board of five trustees undertake to carry on a mercantile business, with the details of which none of them can be familiar. No prudent owner of a business fails to give directors to a business manager who has only a salary interest. When...
...safeguard their business,--or rather safeguard our business, since the whole capital is derived form the sacrifices of old members. We do not know for instance whether the statements of their accounts which they intend to publish are to be thorough and detailed: in the past there was a period of several years when those accounts were kept secret, to the great detriment of the Society. Again what opportunities will there be for the examination of complaints? The proposed trustees ask us to give up our property in order that it may be made more available: can they not tell...
...University. The selection among those admitted to candidacy will be made on the results of a competitive examination in the history of architecture and in design, to be held in Cambridge in the month of April of each year. Each candidate will be examined on a special period to be selected by him in advance and notice of choice must be sent to the Professor of Architecture at least thirty days before the examination...