Word: focused
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...believe that the interest now manifested in the movement for a University Club should be brought to a focus and an expression of student opinion secured. If the friends of Harvard outside see that the members of the University feel strongly the want of such a central organization the means of supplying the want would not be long withheld. Would it not be well therefore for the president of the Senior class to call a meeting where this question could be discussed and an organized movement in its behalf instituted? Such a step would do more than anything else could...
...life and thought of today. It seems to me that an assocition might be formed on the following lines. First, every undergraduate should have an hour's conference every week with some instructor. These conferences could be devoted to talking over his work, and bringing to a focus his knowledge, that he might better direct his future study. I could take three or five men in this way. It is not necessary that a tutor in the association should be a college instructor. There are graduate students who could help in this work. Secondly, the members of the association should...
...lenses, constructed with peculiar care are necessary to do away with the spherical, chromatic, and actinic aberration of the light. The presence of any of these defects mars the accuracy of the work. Stress was also laid on the difficulty of photographing the many colored images, the points of focus of the color rays and of the actinic rays lying in different planes, and of the method of regulating the exposures. This is a fundamental point in all photography...
...great deepening of interest in the study of history. Darwin's great achievement was the spreading of the historical idea far beyond the limits of humanity. His "Origin of Species" (1859) was not the first exponent of the evolution but only one grand application of it; bringing to a focus tendencies of modern thought...