Word: solids
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...number of economic specimens, recently received, are also on exhibition and are expected to give far better illustrations of certain orders than has hitherto been possible. One of the most interesting is a large specimen of brick tea, now installed in the north room. Tea of this kind, in solid tablets of great size a method of packing employed in China when the tea is to be transported for a long distance. The specimen is the gift of Mrs. Abbott of Cambridge...
...schools in their work of preparation for the different colleges, with the idea that by having uniform examinations, the work can be greatly simplified. Board examinations are at present held in the following subjects: English, History, Latin, Greek, French, German, Spanish, Mathematics (including elementary and advanced algebra, plane and solid geometry and trigonometry), Physics, Chemistry, Botany, Geography and Drawing. The papers in each subject are set by a separate committee of examiner appointed by the Board and consisting of two college teachers and one school teacher. The questions are then submitted to a final committee of revision, made up entirely...
...University, emphasized the fact that the line was not only strong and heavy, but also slow. the Maine eleven, but getting the start of the Harvard team, gained first down ten times. Against West Point, however, the work of the Harvard team was better. the defense was solid; the offense, at times, powerful...
...study life completely who does not consider both the mass of solid facts which scientists place before us, and the sea of mystery which lies beyond these facts. Scientists themselves have to confess that in spite of all their endeavors there are mysteries concerning the nature of reality which they cannot fathom. So too, treating religion scientifically, those who seek to explain it touch on mysteries which they cannot explain...
June 27--Elementary physics, elementary French, solid geometry, plane geometry, geometry, elementary German...