Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...takes a wide subject and divides it into special topics, defining each, and limiting it so as not to encroach on another. He then chooses his topic, and works to exhaust it. When his topic has become exhausted, the knowledge of experience becomes essential; he can tell from the scale of fish everything science tells us about the fish; from a chip he can recognize a Greek statue; from a bone he can draw the skeleton. In fine, his object is to make the part reflect the whole. To this tendency of the German towards specialization is due the rise...
...been made by Professor Richards, assisted by C. H. Ludington, '87. The investigation covers the last twenty years and is based on an exhaustive mathematical computation of the marks received. The average standing of 1003 non-athletic men during the decade ending in 1878 was 2.65 on a scale of 4. During the next ten years it rose to 2.69 for 1227 men. The record of 101 athletic students during the first decade was 2.55. The averages of the members of the various university teams were as follows: Crew, first decade, 2.56, second decade, 2.52. Nine, first decade, 2.59; second...
...photographs, the eclipse of 1889 will be looked upon, among men devoted to the study of practical astronomy, as marking an epoch in the history of solar physics. The great thirteen-inch Boyden telescope, with a lens specially corrected for photographic work, was successfully operated in securing eight large-scale pictures of the sun's corona, and these appear certain to be the finest representations of this strange object ever obtained. Up to this perion the great trouble has been that the representations of the sun's corona have been of so small a size as utterly to preclude...
...Private enterprise is not sufficient. (a) Preliminary surveys and plans must be made on a national scale; (b) the systems of other countries must be investigated; (c) some canals hundreds of miles in length are required.- Cong. Record, Sept. 11, 1888, p. 9304; Science...
...Bailey, L. S., then spoke first on the negative. The tendency of our time is to concentration of capital into a few hands. Industry is conducted on a large scale because this is the best way. Business men and scholars alike pronounce competition a failure wherever much fixed capital is employed. Pools have been legalized abroad and should be carefully regulated, but all efforts to suppress them are footish...