Word: pointedly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There is one point in the management of the new baths which seems to me to be of much greater importance than the laying of slates in the drying room. I refer to the constant dripping of scalding drops from the hot water pipes on to the shoulders of the bathers. Can not something be done to prevent this...
Origin of the Copper Deposits of Keweenaw Point. Professor H. L. Smyth. Geological Laboratory, Room...
...principle-to state it at its best-that so long as a man is a bona fide student, it is no objection to his eligibility to play on his college team that he has played on a professional team for money. It would be needless to point out how easily the admission of such a principle would afford a cover for corruption of the worst sort. The experience of sportsmen the world over is that the only safe rule is that which precludes the possibility of a man's engaging in athletics for pecuniary profit and still retaining his amateur...
...distinguished patron of art and as a connoisseur was widely known in this country and in Europe. He was president of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and by virtue of this office had a place on the board created by statute to pass upon the suitability in point of art of public monuments to be erected in Boston. He was also a collector of paintings and owned some of the finest works of art in America...
...associated with him both in Europe and America as pupil, assistant and friend. The book brings out very clearly the identity of Agassiz both in its personal and in its scientific aspects. It goes very fully, moreover, into the details of the work of Agassiz, though treating from the point of view of a critical and dispassionate observer. Correspondence, journals and personal impressions of various sorts are freely drawn upon, and no pains have been spared to render this the definitive account of the great naturalist...