Word: processes
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...after determined and systematic work the undertaking may now be called, we are glad to say, an entire success. Thirteen hundred dollars have been subscribed, six hundred more is required for apparatus, and without doubt will soon be furnished by the students. The building, which is now in process of erection, will be of wood, about fifty-five by twenty-five feet; the plans and specifications have been furnished by Professor Babcock, Professor of Architecture, whose name is a sufficient guaranty of their utility and beauty...
...professors not only give us the conclusions from a life study of their special subjects, but also show us how simple and natural the methods of experiment, how numerous the sources from which we may obtain materials, and that the process of thought on subjects most remote from the mind in its early years is in no way different from that we have employed many times on familiar subjects. Their greatest desire and most beneficial service is to infuse every mind coming within their reach with as great an interest as possible in the subject to be studied, leaving...
...feel just now in a complaining mood, let us leave the excellences, and consider some of the defects in the modern process of book-making, - defects which in the productions of some publishers are only too prominent...
...portraits by Copley in Massachusetts Hall have lately been photographed. It is understood that they are to be reproduced by the heliotype process to serve for illustrations in a book relating to art by Mr. C. C. Perkins soon to be published...
...better to be moderate in business and study, as in other things! We might well copy, in this respect, the more staid and phlegmatic English and Germans; to be sure, these have their faults, but the most certain way to gain any end is by a safe and thoughtful process, rather than by a violent, hasty action; and the straightest path to success in study is not by excessive application, but by a judicious and reasonable division of one's time between diligence and diversion...