Word: phenomena
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...total eclipse of the moon will occur early Monday morning, the moon entering the shadow at 12.50 o'clock. In order to offer to members of the University and their friends the facilities for an intelligent observance of the phenomena, the Astronomical Laboratory on jarvis street will be open to them continuously if the weather is clear from 12 o'clock, midnight, tomorrow until 5 o'clock Monday morning. Professor R. W. Willson '73, Director of the Laboratory, will be there to explain the eclipse...
...poets, particularly fail to express anything vital or even individual. They write pretty fair verse in a good many different forms. Sonnets predominate, but there are specimens of ballade, epigram, stanzas, irregular rhyme and blank verse. There is the usual meteorological trend--snow, wind, waves, sunset and allied phenomena--but on the whole the range is reasonably wide and most of the authors are trying honestly enough to express what they themselves have felt and seen. There is no conscious imitation and very little allusion. But the total effect is conventionality. We get no new ideas, no new sensations...
...important branch of industry in which our nation is so weak? To this work Pennock gave everything. He was working without a guiding hand in the no man's land of science and Industry; he had to overcome difficulties which no one had ever encountered before; he met phenomena which had never been met before and which carried with them the forces of sudden death and destruction. Only those who have similarly trod uncharted lands know the terrible obstacles of discouragement and disappointment which nature places in the way of the explorer...
...Group II: Physics 13 hf., X-Ray Phenomena, will be a new half-course given the second half-year by Dr. D. L. Webster. Astronomy 6, Practical Astronomy, will be given next year, but the following courses in Astronomy, will be omitted: 4a h.f., The Determination of Orbits; 4b hf., The Determination of Orbits; 7, Astrophysics; and 6, Celestial Mechanics. Zoology 2 hf., Genetics and Eugenics, will be known hereafter as Zoology 8 hf. Physiology 1, Elementary Anatomy and Physiology, will not be given. Palaentology 3 hf., Systematic Invertebrate Palaeontology, will be omitted...
...general activity in the building is centered around the study of high-voltage and high-frequency electrical phenomena, particularly in the field of radio telegraphy and radio telephony. For these subjects the laboratory has a very valuable collection of apparatus, much of which has been developed at Harvard, and some of which is entirely unique...