Word: tools
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Bribery and corruption at Yale: - The faculty of Yale College has offered the college a whole day on Washington's birthday on the condition the freshmen refrain from the usual procession on that day. [And Dr. Dwight is a clergyman, tool...
...Sale. - Bicycle. 52 inch Expert Columbia, with lamp, tool bay, etc., complete. $85. Apply at 37 weld...
...course, by the maker's long experience. Then an iron disk, large enough to-cover the glass, is made into a concave shape exactly corresponding to the desired convexity of the lens, thus, in reality forming a species of mould. This disk, which by the way is called the "tool," is placed on the glass, and by a simple mechanical device is made to rotate upon it. When the grinding is completed by the use of this tool and grinding-powder, and the lens reduced to the proper convex form, the polishing tool is applied. This is made...
...application of this principle and its results. We may remark at once, that the present written examination system has been an indispensable accompaniment and tool of the percentage-marking now in vogue. The scale is too fine, in any case, but is less easily applied to other means of testing, such as recitations, than to an examination paper; some scale, of course, is necessary, but it must be coarse enough to be applied justly to every kind of test. With these mutual limits, then, let us define to some extent our test; then our marking system will be practically developed...
Another grievance has been brought to light, and this time the much-abused janitors are in trouble. With their accustomed care for our wants and necessities, nearly all the janitors provide themselves with a box of tools which they are always willing to lend to the students who may be fortunate enough to be under their care. Unfortunately however, these happy students do not seem to realize the fact that such tools are loaned, and not presented to the borrowers with the compliments of the donor. We recently heard of one case in which the janitor had not a single...