Word: circularity
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...arsenal crawling soldiers and marines had squirmed through the charred ashes of leveled buildings, grasses, companions. Any moment a shell might explode, but most of the firing had ceased after 48 hours. Here a marine sifted, and as the grit drizzled through his sieve, he spied a black, circular object. A ring. Spattered on his shoes lay the reliquae of a ghost. Over in Brooklyn, at the Navy morgue, officers shook their heads. One cannot identify dismembered legs with fingerprints. The bodies had been found thick around the first powder magazine which exploded -bodies of heroic soldiers who had defied...
Recent investigations by the College Observatory have led to a definite advance in knowledge of the star H. D. 161114 (xxOphinchi), according to Circular 292 issued by the Observatory last night...
...preface to the book would indicate that it is little more than the circular of some railroad company advertising the glories of Glacier National Park; but, since few people read prefaces, it will not prevent their going farther and seeing that "Old, Old, Old Andrew Jackson" and "A Curse for the Saxaphone" will mysteriously appeal to their aesthetic tastes as well as amuse and stir them. On the surface, there are few signs that there is any aesthetic content there. The best things in this book are as shapeless as the mountains that obsess their author. There is either...
Early in next week, every Freshman will receive a copy of the revised edition of the rules relating to college studies, in addition to a circular giving the office hours from April 12 to May 15 of the men who will act as representatives of the various departments in which concentration is permissible. Freshmen are encouraged to call upon these men to talk with them in reference to the fields in which they are interested before making a final decision on the department in which they will concentrate. The choice of the field of concentration must ordinarily be approved...
...change in the system of admission without examination was decided on at the same meeting, which passed the enrollment limitation. The circular letter sent out by Mr. Henry Pennypacker '99, Chairman of the Committee on Admission, reads, "The application of the rule concerning candidates to be admitted from the first seventh of their class will hereafter be discretionary with the Committee on Admission." The Committee further announces that in 1927 and after that admission without examination will be limited to schools which do not usually prepare their pupils for the College Board examinations. Such schools are specified as high schools...