Word: processes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hire a large number of good waiters whenever he wants them. But he can pick them up, one or two at a time, and so can replace, one or two at a time, the new waiters whom he was obliged to hire, but who have proved inefficient. This winnowing process takes time, and as one's comfort at Memorial depends entirely on one's waiter, a few of us must suffer for the time being. But in three weeks or a month Mr. Balch expects to be rid of these inefficient waiters...
...convenient book for class day, which shows some enterprise, will be published Thursday afternoon by Moses King. It will be a neat pamphlet containing the class song with music, reduced from the HARVARD HERALD print by a photographic process: a view of Sever Hall, where the Pudding spreads: a view of Massachusetts Hall, where the Pi Eta spreads, and a view of the Gymnasium, where the dancing takes place in the evening. A new plan of the vicinity of the college has been made, showing by numbers and an alphabetical directory the location of all college buildings and noted buildings...
...himself says, he "has a good remembry," and while plodding his steady rounds with cart and basket, he has been wont to cogitate deeply the affairs of his own observation about college, and many a shrewd and simple grain of wisdom he has been able to distill in the process. John holds decided opinions on all the great questions of the day, and always exercises his privilege of the ballot, we may be sure, with due deliberation. If questioned, he can give a very graphic and remarkable history of the Christian religion, with astonishing exactitude as to dates and events...
...young men selected in this way, the most worthless are weeded out during the first year, under a very watchful process, which rests finally upon the test of frequent examinations. The actual depletion of the freshman class through direct dropping at Christmas-time and in June, and voluntary surrender under fear of dropping, is ten per cent. The same process is repeated in the following years." This preparation has been especially directed to prepare the student to develop the power of self-direction, and not merely to make him acquainted with certain subjects...
...Heliotype Printing Co. have issued a circular letter to members of '82, requesting to be released from their proposal, and contradicting Pach's statement that the pictures are reversed in the heliotype process...