Word: signal
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Members of N. H. 1 will visit the Boston Signal Service office today, accompanied by Mr. Davis...
...where we have gone a great deal further than they did, it is this instinct which is the root of the whole matter and the ground of all our success; and this instinct the world has mainly learnt of the Greeks, inasmuch as they are humanity's most signal manifestations of it. Greek art, again, Greek beauty, have their root in the same impulse to see things as they really are, inasmuch as Greek art and Greek beauty rest on fidelity to nature,-the best nature,-and on a delicate discrimination of what this best nature...
...boys had lots of innocent fun at the expense of "Betty," as they called him. The appearance of his smiling, boyish face and gray curls, and his slight figure draped in the inevitable cloak, in Chancellor Crosby's place at the chapel desk, was always the signal for an outburst of applause. While he was reading the morning lesson, the students marked every emphasized word with a universal and simultaneous stamp of the feet, and they applied the same realistic ictus to every accented syllable in the hymn that he read. He couldn't stop them, and, indeed, seldom tried...
...Davis, the instructor in geology, will deliver a course of Lectures on Storms, before the Lowell Institute, Boston, commencing on Monday evening next. He will include an account of the workings of the Signal Service...
Michigan University has established a course peculiarly fitted for those who contemplate entering the U. S. Signal Service. [Chronicle...