Word: plane
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...well of the stairway in the addition affords excellent opportunity for repeating Foucault's celebrated experiment demonstrating the rotation of the earth, by means of swinging a long pendulum, the deflection of which from its plane shows the rotation of the earth. During the second half year this experiment will be tried...
...usually held at Professor Shaler's home in Martha's Vineyard, was located this year at Squam Lake, N. H. There were eighty-seven men, mostly under-graduates, in the camp, and the work was laid out and directed by Mr. D. L. Turner and six assistants. The work--Plane, Geodetic and Railroad Surveying -- counted a course and a half for each man and lasted nine weeks. The camp will be held at the same place next summer, and an attempt will be made to introduce several kinds of recreation...
...classes, now scattered through the different recitation halls, and all the classes in psychological research, now cramped in inadequate laboratories in Dane Hall, might be brought together. "Such a home," Professor Munsterberg writes, "would give us first, of course, the room and the external opportunities for work on every plane; it would give us also the dignity and the repose, the unity and comradeship of a philosophical academy. It would give us the inspiration resulting from the mutual assistance of the different parts of philosophy, which in spite of their apparent separation are still today parts of one philosophy only...
...number of the Advocate which is issued this morning deserves especial commendation, except in the editorial department. The first editorial complains of a state of affairs and a spirit that has long ago ceased to exist. The second is pointless. But the rest of the articles reach a plane high enough to bring the number above the ordinary run of Advocates, in spite of this editorial weakness...
...Modern Painters," will in the main, however, be found entirely sound though overstatements, and even errors are not wanting. "It has not always been correctly represented. It has in fact not seldom been inexcusably represented. This work is in the main sound and illuminating. It is on the highest plane of thought and feeling; and no criticism can rob it of its enduring value. It is full of inspiration which lifts the mind continually into the realm of the ideal...