Word: outer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...strip of black paint, but planking will be set up to mark clearly to the runner as he comes up the straight stretch on either side the exact size and shape of the curve that he must turn. The seats for the spectators will be rather close to the outer edge of the track but not uncomfortably...
...Winsor's last letter from London to the Nation treats of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, the old Puritan college where John Harvard took his degree. All traces of the college buildings as they stood in John Harvard's day have disappeared with the exception of one of the old outer walls. The green quadrangle seemed to call for a Statue of John Harvard such as now stands on the Delta. All that Emmanuel College has in the way of an effigy of Harvard is a stained glass figure in one of the refectory windows. This compares very poorly in dignity with...
...general character of the North Avenue gate, to make the gate in every respect subordinate, its principal posts representing in scale the dimensions of the smaller posts of the North Avenue gate. Seen from the Delta it will present a recessed entrance, about forty feet wide, flanked on the outer corners by piers twelve feet high and on the inner corners by piers of the same dimensions. The gateway itself will be of wrought iron, of a simple character, and about twelve feet in width, serving as one of the carriage approaches to the yard...
...Philosophy of Evolution," which forms the topic of the present lecture, is in no sense a finished doctrine, nor is it, on its philosophical side, a very elaborate doctrine. It consists of a criticism and formulation of the presuppositions that are characteristic of an age whose interest in outer nature is mainly an historical interest. The thought of the present century differs from that of the Seventeenth Century chiefly in this prominence of the historical study of the world. For the Seventeenth Century the world was the embodiment of eternal laws; it was a mechanical universe, where all was merely...
Assuming then the postulates of Realism, let us try to give them a simple and unitied statement, and then to analyze their results. The world for Realism exists as an outer world known by the observer, and shown to him in the facts of experience. Upon these facts his thinking is to base itself. He is to describe the world of experience. His feelings, his "Appreciate comments" on the world are not to reveal to him truth; only his "Descriptions" are to be objective. All that he assumes of the outer world is that it is describable. As such, however...