Word: posting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...data for induction, generalization, abstraction, - the highest processes of thought. The object of a college is not that of a machine-shop; it does not fit a man directly for active life, but for broad and right modes of thought. To specialize or differentiate is the object of a post-graduate course, or a professional school. Modern induction requires the eye of the thinker to have a broad range, - college teaches us to see widely; then, properly, should begin that special investigation which is to turn our inert comparison and Fakir-like contemplation into the enthusiastic pursuit of that knowledge...
...United States Navy, and for several months afterwards was Assistant in the United States Naval Observatory at Washington. He was then made Superintendent of the American Ephemeris, and returned to Cambridge. He continued to perform the duties of his office until his appointment in 1866 to the post of Phillips Professor of Astronomy and Director of the Observatory of Harvard College. He was also appointed Professor of Geodesy in the Mining School...
...Kent's play on the first base was magnificent. Hooper, as usual, pitched wonderfully well. Ernst made a beautiful catch in the last innings, running from centre field nearly to short stop for the ball. Thatcher was unfortunate in having lame hands, but his pluck in remaining at his post till the end is worthy of great praise. His errors he atoned for by a long fly over left field's head in the ninth innings, when it was most welcome. The score is as follows...
APROPOS to the "Centennial," the Boston Post gives us "Veni, vidi, vici, - I came, I saw, I Concord...
...however, the Harvard student can study Political Science in a manner very similar to that which the Post demands; and it is safe to say that, if he avoid the cramming against which our former editorial was directed, he will be able to undertake a voyage in the ship, of state without fear of unpleasant consequences from the unsteady motion of the vessel...