Word: periodic
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Forty-five men came out for fall baseball practice on Soldiers Field yesterday. The squad was divided into four teams, two of which played a four-inning game during the first part of the afternoon. The other two nines were then put in for the remainder of the practice period. As most of the players have had little experience, the play was naturally ragged. The batteries of the teams were,-Clarkson and Thayer, Dudley and Manning, Frothingham and Jaques, Reid and Marean...
...middle of the nineteenth century was marked in the world of art as a time of very conventional notions. These notions had been a gradual growth of the teachings of the decadent period in Italian art, with additions from the "pseudo-classicism of Winckelmann and the pedantic antiquarianism of the school of David." The ideals and impulses of the Renaissance by the seventeenth century had lost hold on the artistic imagination in its creative faculty. English landscape painting was involved in mannerisms derived from the landscape backgrounds of the conventional historic figure painting. The Dutch landscape art, while free from...
...Real Wages for the same period...
Three courses of practical work were carried on this summer, an elementary course in plane surveying and two advanced courses in railroad and geodetic surveying. The freshman course, covering the full seven weeks of the period in camp, was spent in running level lines, making chain, azimuth and compass surveys, laying out mining claims, taking soundings, and in plotting the country by the plane table, and transit and stadia methods. Besides the field work a day or two was set aside every week for computing and drawing maps...
...geodetic course, the instruction in railroad surveying was begun and carried on through the remaining four weeks of the period in camp. The ground was divided up among three imaginary railroads and a company of men assigned to each. For each party a captain was appointed who assumed the responsibility for the instruments used in the day's work, and who made daily reports of the progress of his section. Each railroad or section was assigned two miles of country for its track. This was first surveyed and the field notes marked on a map. After estimating the cost...