Word: surveyed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...honest belief in the existence of faults. The fact is that the book has many faults. As a "piece of literary workmanship" it is far from perfect; the book abounds in inharmonious and loosely-constructed sentences; it contains positive errors so glaring as to be palpable to the merest survey; the use of metophor is carried to such an extent as to be wearisome; and the sole merit of the book is the entertaining way in which a clever but fantastic and imaginative, idea is developed into an interesting story. For interesting it certainly is, but decidedly not powerful...
...already exists at Yale, given by Mr. A. T. Hadley. Its purpose is to cover the history of railroads and the business methods of the same, together with the social problems arising in connection with them. The course also treats of the railway systems of Europe including a careful survey of the German railway union, which embraces most of the German roads and some in Austria and Holland. Among the business and social questions are rates, competition, railroad legislation, strikes, granger movements and railroad commissions. The course is conducted mainly by lectures; but there are free discussions on all knotty...
...special report of Alexander Agassiz, curator of the museum, is the most instructive of those handed to the president during the last year. It not only covers the work of the year but contains a general survey of the work accomplished during the last ten years, the period of his administration. A comparison is made of the state of the museum in 1873 and 1883. "At the close of 1873 the museum building covered about 9, 400 square feet of ground the buildings and collections then represented an expenditure of about $200, 000. From that time to the past academic...
...even long - as we did that morning - to join in the grateful pursuit. The dining hall in question will admit of six hundred students all thirsting for knowledge, eating roast beef at the same time. There is a gallery at one end of the hall for carious strangers to survey the wondrous plan; but we got so hungry with watching these youngsters that we did not remain long. Possibly the stealthy creep of prejudice over our judgments may have been the cause of our verdict; but we certainly arrived at the conclusion that our English boys at "Trinity" and "Jesus...
...appointed to the Holllis Professorship of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy. Professor Lovering has held this position ever since, and has been for many years a member of the American Philosophical Society and the National Academy of Science. From 1867 to 1876 he was connected with the United States Coast Survey...