Word: whole
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been my privilege to observe the development by my father's architectural firm of the group plan of several colleges, first on paper, then in reality. Two of these, like Harvard, have had to adjust themselves to existing structures, but have yet succeeded in presenting a symmetrical whole. It is, therefore, astonishing to realize that it has been left to a committee of the Student Council to suggest what should have been solved in the office of Coolidge, Shepley, Bullfinch, and Abbott. It is not my purpose to criticize the work of this capable firm (although they have designed...
...well-wishers for His Majesty's recovery. . . . There are phials containing green, red, and yellow liquids; there are chest pastes made from fruits and flour, there are unguents of crushed ginger and honey which have been handed down in recipe from generation to generation, and there is a whole drawer full of protective amulets sent by villagers from nearly every county in the country...
...orchestra, not our chorus, none of our conductors, none of our decorations and none of our technical men? They may perhaps have one or the other of our soloists-but that is not Bayreuth, is it? Could we ask you to give notice to the American Press that this whole enterprise has nothing on earth to do with Bayreuth...
...Harvard Observatory. Beginning as an experiment in 1850, when the first photograph of a star ever obtained was taken with the "incomparable" 15-inch telescope, starting anew in 1885 after the invention of the dry plate, the Harvard Collection of celestial photographs is the most complete in the whole world. Southern stars not visible in Cambridge were photographed in Arequipa, Peru, from 1891 to 1926, when the station was removed to Bloemfontein, South Africa...
...means of the Harvard photographs, certain comprehensive investigations have been undertaken here, which cannot at present be duplicated at any other Observatory. There is space to speak of two such problems; a survey of the whole sky for the discovery and study of variable stars, and for the classification of stars by means of their spectra...