Word: regarding
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...required would strike terror into the heart of any one but a Peirce. "The measurement shall be from the nearest break of the ground made by the ball, perpendicularly to the scratch line, extended, if necessary, to meet this perpendicular." We see now the wisdom of the provision in regard to honorary members. The Executive Committee doubtless intend to elect the Professor of Surveying an honorary member, with the special duty of performing this difficult mathematical feat. We would also suggest that the Committee make arrangements for hiring that noble instrument, the marking-machine, which has recently occupied the attention...
...rule in regard to throwing the hammer does not seem to us quite as it should be: "Letting go of the hammer in an attempt counts as a 'try'." When the "solid iron sphere, weighing sixteen pounds," strikes a spectator in the head, we think it extremely likely that that individual, if able to collect his ideas, would look upon it as a 'throw'. After several spectators in the immediate neighborhood had been carried off prostrated by these 'tries,' the judges might with reason decide that the contestant had done enough for that afternoon, as the spectators seemed not hurt...
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...Chinese language at Harvard, and in the support of his argument even goes so far as to say that a knowledge of Chinese, as well as of Greek and Latin, is desirable on account of the literary wealth of the language. Some persons may be a little skeptical in regard to this literary wealth of the Chinese, and we do not fear that a Chinese elective would attract students from Latin and Greek. It is not in this direction, but as a means of facilitating trade with China, that the study of Chinese will be most useful to Americans...
INFORMATION in regard to the proposed course of private instruction for women in Cambridge may be obtained of Mr. Arthur Gilman, 5 Phillips Place, or of any of the following ladies: Mrs. Louis Agassiz, Quincy Street; Mrs. E. W. Gurney, Fayerweather Street; Mrs. J. P. Cooke, Quincy Street; Mrs. J. B. Greenough, Appian Way; Mrs. Arthur Gilman, Phillips Place; Miss Alice M. Longfellow, Brattle Street; Miss Lilian Horsford, Craigie Street...