Word: sawed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...interesting observation was made by assistants of the observatory during the electrical storm of last week. The assistants, who were at their homes in different parts of Cambridge, all heard the clap of thunder only two or three seconds after they saw the flash. As the difference in the rates at which sound and light travel is only five seconds a mile, it is proved that in such electrical storms the rate of sound is much accelerated...
...respect the cause of his influence upon our literature. For the Iliad and the Odyssey were learned by every Greek school boy; every child was taught his first lines of the Iliad, just as at present he is taught his A. B, C. For the Greeks saw how beautifully every phrase of life was pictured in Homer from whom as Ovid says, "As from a spring perennial the lips of bards are moistened and refreshed," and knew that their children could not become great and noble men without a knowledge of the Iliad and Odyssey. "A beautiful mirror of human...
...countryman, the late Henry W. Longfellow, and promised to send him, for presentation to Harvard college, a miniature on silver of General George Washington, purchased at the sale of a celebrated collection of pictures, curiosities and articles of virtue in London. But shortly after my return to England I saw, with deep regret, in the Times, the death of America's great poet: I now have the pleasure of consigning to your care a small relic of the first president of the great American Republic, to be forwarded by you to Harvard college, not so much for its intrinsic value...
...published yesterday a communication criticizing the editorial of a few days back in which we saw fit to support the action of the Athletic committee. Certain statements in that communication seem to us to deserve reply...