Word: simpler
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...evening of the freshman game there. Last year the Ninety-one club gave a concert there and had a very enjoyable time. The club this year is making good progress. It has taken the advice of the older men in college and has decided to try simpler songs, and get them as perfectly as possible. Mr. Locke has drilled the club several times and it has drilled the club several times and it has shown marked improvement under his leadership. The Banjo club is doing well. Several new selections have been learned lately and the men are doing...
...plants are distributed in one of two ways, either by inherent or by extraneous means. The first, perhaps, is the simpler and more natural, and yet it is a well-established fact that as much is done towards reproduction by extraneous means as by inherent ones...
Yesterday afternoon Professor Lyon lectured on the decipherment of the Babylonian books. He said that had Babylonian writings not been found accompanied by parallel translations in some simpler language, they could perhaps never have been deciphered. Such translations were furnished by the records of the Achaemenian kings of Persia. The first problem was therefore to read the old Persian after which the reading of the Babylonian was sure to follow. Inscriptions from Persepolis furnished the material. After the unsuccessful attempts of various scholars, Georg Friederich Grotefend, of Hanover, in 1802, found the key, by applying a formula...
...arrangement one man will be given the entire charge of all the buildings, and will have direct power to hire and supervise the assistant janitors and goodies. This will require the present office of janitor for each building to be dispensed with, and will be a much simpler and more direct method of government than the present...
...availability of the plane mirror in practical astronomy has long been known. Prof. Winlock applied it in his experiments is solar photography. French astronomers also have used it in their "equatorial code." The new "horizontal telescope" is a much simpler and less expensive instrument and has the advantage of retaining more light and being no more liable to distortions or variations from changes of temperature than an ordinary reflecting telescope...