Word: view
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...seek, simply, to establish the point that, in view of all the facts, you have, not consciously perhaps, but without sufficient consideration, passed a certainly gratuitous, if not actually an unfriendly criticism upon a foreman worthy of your steel...
...year is less than it has been for several years, owing to the falling off in interest in landscape gardening. A few men, however, come in even as late as Christmas. A new course is given this year by Mr. Morse on Natural History from an agricultural point of view, and more special attention is being given to Mr. Watson's course in landscape gardening. It shows the value of trees and shrubs for ornamental purposes, and instructs in practical greenhouse work...
...collection of pictures on the walls of the stairway leading up to the Library Reading Room has been enlarged by photographs of the church of St. Saviour's, Southwark, London, and by a view of the town of Southwark, including many noted buildings. The gift is due to the kindness of Mr. James Atkins Noyes, of the class of '83, who has recently returned from Fngland...
...Saviour's Church is of especial interest, for here John Harvard was baptized in 1607, and his father, Robert Harvard, was buried in 1625. The view of the section of the town of Southwark contains the church and the Priory of St. Saviour's and the Winchester House and London Bridge in the seventeenth century. The Thomas a Becket Chapel and the Woods Tower can also be seen, together with many other old and historic places...
...respects from those ordinarily taken elsewhere. Instead of using a spectroscope with a slit, in which but one star is photographed at a time, large prism is placed over the object glass of the telescope and thus spectra of all the bright stars in the field of view are obtained. The number of stars photographed simultaneously is still further increased by substituting for the object glass a portrait lens like that used by photographers, only larger. The field of view is in this way increased from two degrees square to ten degrees square, and a photograph is obtained...