Word: plane
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...number present at the meeting. That the club as newly constituted will be a success, the enthusiasm shown by its members is a guarantee, Only let these members steer clear in future of Harvard indifference and we shall all hope to see their club placed on a plane of usefulness as great as that now occupied by the Historical Society and Finance Club...
...Athens of France and Germany, not only to raise the standard of American scholarship, but to promote the world's understanding of the problems of that ancient life which soared with the swift and unerring flight of the eagle from the infancy of barbarism to the highest intellectual plane which has been attained...
...Plane Geometry...
...college?" I think that I can see the growth from year to year of a catholic spirit which naturally distinguishes the University from the College, and which eradicates gradually from its members the petty prejudices which too often vex the souls of undergraduates. Starting on a higher plane and with a more exacting standard than other clubs, its course thus far promises a future more splendid and useful than any other predecessors or contemporaries. I have heard complaints from within and without that its rules were too strict and exclusive. But I do not hesitate to say that I hope...
...earth's magnetism against gravitation. The other, which is the larger and more valuable of the two instruments, is a fine magnetometer, made by Elliot Bros., London. This instrument measures either the horizontal force of the earth's magnetism or the direction in which it points on a horizontal plane. Some difficulty will be found in properly adjusting these instruments, on account of the peculiar magnetic situation of the observatory, midway between East and West Rocks, each of which exerts a magnetic influence upon the instruments, which must be calculated before the variations of the needle can be correctly observed...