Word: productiveness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...else. One man builds his plan out and disappears; another succeeds him and grafts his own ideal on to his predecessor's relicts, so to say, and, to mix metaphors, the result is a very patchwork of policy - likest a crazy-quilt, Queen Anne's cottage, than any other product of the same human mind. Hence, too, the impossibility of the strictest economy. The bucket changes hands so often and so rapidly, and each carries it so differently from anybody else, that some water must be spilt e'er it reach the fire...
...argued for the affirmative, while Messrs. Hansen and Goodale of the Law School upheld the negative side of the question. In the course of the debate, several interesting economic facts were brought forward. Thus one of the speakers alluded to the fact that 85 per cent. of the total product of the German Empire is distributed among persons having an income of less that $500 a year. Reliable statistics prove that the receipts of the laboring classes in England have increased 200 per cent. during the last fifty years. The gains of capital have been augmented by only...
...seem to find the appreciation demanded, both by its intrinsic merits and by the excellence of the rendering. While it cannot be said that Mr. Gericke's serenade is the result of genuine inspiration, there is good work there and a very charming composition is the product. There is plenty of room in the world for things of this sort. The unaccustomed division of the programme may have been welcome to the average listener. To the true music-lover it was decidedly tantalizing to have only a sample instead of a whole symphony. What was given, was given in good...
Though the extract from the Boston Transcript which we print on another page may be somewhat overdrawn, yet it cannot be denied that it contains a pretty accurate portrait of many a character to be met in college society. Whether the "clever" man be a desirable product of college education or not, it must be admitted that he is a constantly increasing quantity in our midst. But, after all, if all possessors of a degree cannot be profound, it is much better that some of them should be only "clever," rather than that the ranks of our alumni should...
...Thus taking the focal length of the eye as ten inches, a one inch objective magnifies ten diameters, a 1-50 inch objective, five hundred diameters; a 1-100 objective, one thousand diameters; (the highest powers made). When the ocular system is added, the magnification is equal to the product of the magnifying powers of the objective times the ocular. For instance, a two inch vocular and a 1-5 objective magnify two hundred and fifty diameters. As oculars are made up to 1-8 and objectives up to 1-100, it is easy to see that the magnification resulting...