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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...
Some of the advantages of Mr. Gerrish's system are its simplicity, the translation of numbers to and from the code without the use of a code book, and the possibility of detecting and correcting errors by inspection. The code itself is in reality a language of eleven words, each of which is a monosyllable of two letters. The series represents the ten digits with an eleventh character. In these monosyllables any one consonant is invariably associated with the same vowel and is never used in any other connection. The two letters thus form a combination which affords a means...
...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...