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...besides practical work. The practical work includes the testing of reagents and small samples of ore, practice on methods, and special work to familiarize the student with sampling large lots of ore, and to give practice in mill and furnace assays. To facilitate the assays of ores of the precious metals, a system of weights has been introduced, by which the weight of the silver or gold globule obtained shows at once, without calculation, the number of Troy ounces in a ton of ore. To furnish necessary facilities for practical work a very complete plant has been provided...
...John. Christ asks the disciples if they will leave him and Peter asks whither they should turn if they did. Before a man turns aside from the Christian religion let him seek out carefully what those who are tempting him away have to offer that will compensate for the precious belief he already holds. He will find that worship of man himself, disbelief of all forgiveness, of reward of virtue and punishment of vice, of soul, of future life, of Heaven, and of Divinity are the tenets of the unbelievers; that this creed and the blackness of an eternal grave...
...book will be made as complete and comprehensive as possible. Every Harvard undergraduate will appreciate the opportunity thus to be afforded, of obtaining at small expense what would in another form, cost him nearly or quite, a hundred dollars, and what he will value through life as his most precious memento of collegiate experience...
...combination of tire, water, earth and air This theory held during the Middle Ages and was the inspiration of the Alchemists who thought that, since all the metals were composed of these four elements and no others, it would be possible to convert the baser metals into the precious ones by a simple change. The decomposition of water by Lavasier, of course, broke up this theory, since one of the supposed elements was compound, and not an element in itself. Very soon after this we have the Daultorian theory of atoms which is our modern chemical theory...
...Perkins, '92, opened for the negative. Silver, he said, has driven gold out of every country that has at any time in its history adopted the less precious metal as a monetary standard and we have no right to assume that the contrary would be the case here. The class, moreover, that wants free coinage is so small that to protect it is to encourage a monopoly. The United States has made several attempts to induce other countries to enter into an agleement fixing the relative value of gold and silver, but these efforts have been entirely fruitless. For most...