Word: code
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Gerrish, an assistant in the Observatory, has recently devised a system and code for use in the transmission of astronomical or other numerical data by telegraph. Since 1883 the University Observatory has been the official centre in the United States for the distribution of astronomical information; and the new system is the result of the experience gained during that period. A practical trial of it, conducted between Cambridge and Mt. Hamilton, California, developed no errors which could not be easily rectified...
...National Football Rules Committee will meet at the Bellevue-Stratford, Philadelphia, this evening instead of at New York as previously planned. Proposed changes in the rules will be considered and a code drawn up for 1906. There will probably be some changes made eventually, but the committee will not adopt any extreme measures...
...prominent features of this system are the admirable hygienic precautions, and the system of workmen's insurance which compels every employee receiving less than a stipulated wage to invest in insurance and pensions for himself and family a certain fraction of his yearly earnings. The motto of the German code is "Love your brethren;" and for that reason it is proper that the embodiment of the German ideas should be placed in the Harvard Museum of Social Ethics. The motive of the Emperor in presenting this gift was two-fold: first, to foster closer relations between German and American economists...
...friends we love or by the foes we ought to cherish. Let all allowances be made for excusable and inoffensive partisanship,--barring the unmelodious horn of cracked tin,--but in our partisan enthusiasm let us not overstep the boundaries of courtesy. Even among the ancient Hebrews, whose code demanded eye for eye and tooth for tooth, the stranger who was in their camp, within their gates, was to be left unvexed and unoppressed...
...Intercollegiate Football Rules Association, at a Meeting in Philadelphia last Saturday, made the following changes in the present intercollegiate code. The University was represented at the meeting by R. D. Wrenn...