Word: compasses
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...business and of public questions that every man should have. To those who do not take Political Economy but who wish to have some knowledge of it we would say that nowhere else can any find the essential principles so well stated or condensed into so small a compass...
Every member of the parties should be provided with compass, clinometer, note book, and hammer. A satchel will be found convenient for carrying lunch out and specimens back. In case of rain, the interrupted excursion will be postponed to the same day next week...
...Russia this summer to take observations on astronomical phenomena best observed there. Meanwhile Princeton does not lose her reputation for preminence in spectroscopy. The top of the observatory has been painted blue. Why, it is impossible to tell. The conical-roofed tower glared with blue light over the compass, unpleasantly and unwelcomedly...
...explanation of problems met in the field. Advanced knowledge of geology will not be required, but only teachers, graduates of colleges or persons of maturity and some training can be admitted. Only men can be accepted as students. Each student should have a satchel, note-book, hammer and compass. There will be opportunities to collect rocks and fossils...
...their seats, there is a pause for a moment and then the conversation begins. The range it takes is wide: one morning the freshman crew, the glee club, the banjo club, theatres, sport in general and the triumphs of one of the speakers in society, were discussed in the compass of forty minutes. At the last topic the talkers usually stop and for the ten minutes that remain of the hour, their neighbors enjoy a long wished quiet. Meanwhile how do the lecturer's word reach the unfortunate men who sit near those I have described. Something in this fashion...