Word: use
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Peabody in the Cambridge Tribune pays the following tribute to the late John Langdon Sibley. "His whole life has been a sacrifice of himself. Trained in a frugal home, and for many years with straightened income, he first made use of enlarged means in relieving distress and want, and in helping students who were struggling under adverse circumstances. He practised the most rigid economy as to his own personal expenses, that he might enjoy the greater luxury of a generous giver. He repaid the aid that he received at Phillips Exeter Academy by funds which, with their accumulations, now amount...
Upon being questioned as to the generally supposed superiority of such an immense lens over those now in use, Mr. Clark said that many people had a very greatly exaggerated idea of what the lens was going to do. He thought that it would not materially increase our knowledge of the heavenly bodies, and that the size and the difficulty of making were entirely out of proportion to the gain in availability...
...Alvin Clark is now an old man, nearly eighty-seven years old. This magnificent piece of work seems a fitting close for a life, the industry of which has made his lenses famous throughout the world, and given one of the most important aids to modern astronomy, namely, the use of better instruments than the science ever knew before...
Chestnut No. 5. "The Harvard men use the cage for practising tennis, as well as base-ball and lacrosse...
...writing theses and forensics are put to a great inconvenience because they are unable to refer to articles which bear on the subject in hand. >These bound periodicals are essentially books of reference, and should not be allowed to leave the library except upon the conditions which govern the use of reserved books in the reading-room. It is seldom that anyone desires to read more than one of the fifty or more articles which are contained in a volume, and this could easily be done in an hour. But a man if allowed to keep out a book...