Word: clearer
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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Would that it were possible for you, to whom perhaps some clearer vision of this is coming as you leave these familiar scenes, somehow to speak back and leave your testimony to the true value of college life and cast down some of the false ideas and dissipate some of the clouds which widely hide that value from the eyes of men who are still scattered along the valleys and uplands of four delightful and absorbing years...
...Herman spoke last evening on Thermo-chemistry. This branch of chemistry seeks to determine the heat developed in the union and disunion of the atoms making up chemical compounds. Many results have been obtained from the study of these reactions which promise to give us, sooner or later, clearer ideas of the composition of matter...
...appearance of the volume is much improved by the use of clearer type, and furthermore, each paragraph has now a distinct number, in place of the previous confusing subdivisions by numbers and letters. At the end important appendices are inserted, on the "Origin of the Construction "Ou Me,'" in the use of "Final Particles" etc. A valuable index is also given of all the quotations in the book. The preface is Dated Pallanzo, Lago Maggiore, September...