Word: cloud
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...financial cloud which threatened to envelop the rowing prospects of the University of Pennsylvania has cleared away. The lack of funds in the treasury of the Athletic Association rendered it necessary to make a special appeal to the students and alumni. The sum of $1500 was needed to carry the crew through the season, and although the full sum has not yet been subscribed, assurances have been received from the alumni that they will guarantee the necessary amount to keep the crew on the water. The loss of the eight to Pennsylvania would have been a severe blow to athletics...
...Ward gave an interesting lecture last night before the Natural History Society. He talked a few minutes about the main features of cloud formation, and then showed by means of lantern slides a very fine series of cloud views taken from photographs. Clouds, said Mr. Ward, are formed by the cooling and condensation of vapor in the air. There are three different types which are classified roughly into three kinds, the cirrus, characterized by its swift motion and feathery appearance; the cumulus, composed of round heaped-up masses; and the stratus, or low ground clouds, such as rise from valleys...
Geological Conference. Papers: Preliminary Report on the South-western Margin of the Boston Basin, Mr. A. J. Collier; Preliminary Report on Shore Erosion on Drumlins, Mr. G. C. Curtis; Preliminary Report on Boulder Trains near Arlington, Mr. H. H. Keeler; A Standard Set of Cloud Views (illustrated by stereopticon), Mr. R. D. C. Ward. Geological Laboratory...
Geological Conference. Papers: Preliminary Report on the South-western Margin of the Boston Basin, Mr. A. J. Collier; Preliminary Report on Shore Erosion on Drumlins, Mr. G. C. Curtis; Preliminary Report on Boulder Trains near Arligton, Mr. H. H. Keeler; A Standard Set of Cloud Views (illustrated by stereopticon), Mr. R. D. C. Ward. Geological Laboratory...
...forget that poetry instructs not by precept and inculcation, but by hints and indirections and suggestions, by inducing a mood rather than by enforcing a principle or a moral. He sometimes impresses our fancy with the image of a schoolmaster whose class-room commands an unrivalled prospect of cloud and mountain, of all the pomp and prodigality of heaven and earth. From time to time he calls his pupils to the window, and makes them see what, without the finer intuition of his eyes, they had never seen; makes them feel what, without the sympathy of his more penetrating sentiment...