Word: faint
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...author of this review has damned "Mother Advocate" with his faint praise, he offers all apologies. But the truth is, the "Old Lady" seems to have grown anaemic during summer. She needs a subcutaneous application of good red blood. In avoiding affectation, the contributors have done well, but in achieving mediocrity they are hardly to be commended. At the risk of bringing anathema upon his head, the reviewer dares to ask, Is the Advocate sufficiently democratic? The literary tradition of the College may be left to the Monthly; the Advocate should be a magazine of undergraduates, for undergraduates...
...sixty-inch reflector which is now being mounted at the Observatory, will when completed, be one of the three largest and most powerful in existence. It will be used for extremely delicate work on faint stars and nebulae, and will be under the complete electrical control of one operator. The reflector, which is of tremendous weight, will rest on a fluid to make manipulation easier...
...inch reflecting telescope obtained with the anonymous fund of 1902. This telescope has been used in measuring the light from three of the variable stars discovered recently near the nebula of Orion by means of photographic plates. These measurements have proved conclusively that the light from these faint stars varies, a fact which heretofore had been unestablished. Before the telescope was completed it was not expected that such accurate work would be possible, and the discovery is of interest both because it shows the progress which has been made in the building of telescopes, and because it establishes the fact...
...walk in the steps of another and that we cannot do as Christ did, nor is it necessary. We should, however, try to have the spirit and principles that he had and carry them out according to our own time and place. A man can get only a faint reflection of Christ's character, but he must use this small knowledge to mould his own life. Christ was not an ecclesiastic, not a theologian, but a simple lover of men who tried to give them happiness. We must remember that happiness is character, what a man is, not what...
...performance of the "Comedy of Errors," in the evening, the deep shadows in the foliage, the faint reflection in the upper branches and, above, the moonlit sky, made a background fit for the "Midsummer Night's Dream"--and one wished for a moment it were to be given. But the "Comedy of Errors" as presented left no regreis. A peculiarly difficult play to act with just enough vigor to emphasize its broad comedy and yet not overdo its farce,--it was given with admirable balance and admirably restrained strength...