Word: charting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...anthropometric chart which Dr. Sargent displayed in the Harvard exhibit in Chicago was one of the most valuable objects to be seen. His old chart compared developments in a lump, while with the new charts there is one for each age at which development takes place, so that every fellow can compare himself with others of his own exact age, and with the normal of that age. The normal American student of the more advanced age is represented by the statues exhibited at Chicago...
...whole collection now at the fair, statues, photographs, statistics and all, will soon be brought here for exhibition. The photographs, taken last spring, represent all styles of development. They are all pictures of Harvard students. Later in the year Dr. Sargent will give a lecture explaining the chart and the pictures. The new chart will be used this year with...
...better methods in lower schools: Prof. D. Collin Wells in Andover Rev Jan. 1892. - (a). Exeter can demand of applicants of over sixteen years of age, only "some knowledge of arithmetic, writing, spelling and grammar:" Minority Rep. p. 19. - (b). Our primary schools are not sufficiently organized, vide chart in addresses and proceeding of New E. Ass. of Colleges and Prep. Schools, Oct. 16, 1891. - (c). French and German youth pass Americans at the primary and grammar school stage: Ibid...
...Hill had prepared a chart by which he showed that in France a man could complete a university education at the age of 21, in Germany at 22, and in the United States at 26. By "university education" meant a training in one of the professional school. In Europe the step from the secondary or preparatory schools into the universities is direct, while in the United States there is an intermediate step in the colleges. In this country there are two roads leading from high schools to professional schools, either through or around the college. Very few of the present...
...Aper has given a photographic telescope 8 inches per hour for use in Cambridge, where 2.157 photographs have been taken making a chart of the sky from the north pole to 20 degrees south of the equator. Spectrit of stars as faint as the tenth magnitude have been obtained and umerous is important results obtained. The most interesting result has been the discovery by Miss Maury of a second star, Beta Aurigael, which is shown by the doubling of the lines in its spectrum at regular intervals to be a close binary, revolving once in about four days. The study...