Word: metrical
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...persons examined. It will be readily seen that the uses of the chart are numerous, showing the relation of the individual to the normal standard, the relation which every part of the individual bears to every other part, and suggesting many other comparisons of interest. The metric system was adopted that the unit of measurement should be as small as possible...
Tables converting metric weights and measures into comprehensible English equivalents, can be obtained at the gymnasium...
...that Mr. Norman's account of the play "must always have a place of its own in the literature of the Oedipus Tyrannus." Throughout the work references are constantly made to Mr. Norman's book, and also to our own Professor, J. W. White, whose work on "Rythmic and Metric" is the basis of Mr. Jebb's metrical criticisms. In the appendix are notes on the Harvard performance of the play of which Mr. Jebb says "The thorough scholarship, the archeological knowledge and the artistic skill which presided over that performance invest the record of it with a permanent value...
Next March, Turkey's old and clumsy system of weights and measures gives way to the metric system. The unit of the new system is called the archius, and is equal to the French metre...