Word: manifold
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...machine-room in the basement of the east end is one of the most important resources of the laboratory. It is here that the professors and advanced students materialize their ideas, and make their new apparatus. The work now being done is manifold. Professor Hall is at present busy in investigating how much steam is lost in the cylinder of an engine when in work. On account of the extreme heat thermometers cannot be used, and Professor Hall is therefore employing a very delicate electrical instrument. The relation of light to electricity and magnetism is being worked...
...college papers, he took a prominent part in the O. K. Society, and acted as librarian and Kr. in the Hasty Pudding Club. At the senior election he was chosen to write the class ode, and the selection proved a very happy one. In spite of his manifold outside interests, his record in scholarship was a good one, as he received degree cum lauds, and also obtained honorable mention in History...
...most extraordinary literary enterprises of the age is Alden's Manifold Cyclopedia of Knowledge and Language. It is much more than a "Cyclopedia of Universal Knowledge." It is also a dictionary of the English language, including every word which has a just claim to a place in the language...
...CRIMSON is in receipt of the prospectus and a specimen selection of Alden's Manifold Cyclopedia. This work is in process of preparation, one volume having already been published. There will be thirty or more volumes of this work, each volume containing about six hundred and fifty pages. The work will be profusely illustrated, and its articles will be written by well known authors. It will be more than a "Cyclopedia of Universal Knowledge," as it will embody a complete dictionary of the English language. It will give more than mere definitions of words, as it will offer general knowledge...
...said about the withdrawal of Princeton and Harvard from the present association, and inviting Yale to join them in the formation of a new triangular league. Yale was very much opposed to such a league, as there are no apparent advantages that would result, and the disadvantages are manifold...