Word: solidity
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Exercises in Solid Geometry...
Exercises in Solid Geometry...
...resolve them with any degree of success into their elements. Therefore, scientific scholars will hail with enthusiasm the results which have been obtained at an expense of so much time and labor, and which will make it possible for them to pursue their researches intelligently and to have some solid foundation for many explanations which, up to this time, have been hardly more than conjectures...
...which the various football teams of the Interscholastic League have been competing during the fall is completed and may be seen for a short time this morning in Leavitt and Peirce's window. The cup is an elegant piece of workmanship. It is of solid silver, lined with gold, weighs about eighty ounces, and will hold about two quarts. It is made in the shape of a half football. The engraving is especially noteworthy. Around the top of the cup is a wreath of laurel leaves twined together in an artistic manner. Beneath this is a plain band, on which...
...subject, he began by saying, was best stated as "realing in college." Though this simple knowledge how to read gives to man, whatever his other acquirements, the solid basis for an education, yet the library-the greater opportunity here-is neither fully nor wisely used. Before men have learned to choose, they are injured by the tremendous mass offered to them, much of which is trivial, much enervating, much even bad. For reading, like the choice of friends, is serious; no gentleman can spend time upon low-minded books. And the time spent merely upon what is trivial...