Word: sine
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Sine the pamphlet was issued announcing the courses to be given this year in the Summer School, it has been decided to give an additional course in Descriptive Astronomy. Especial attention will be paid to the method of teaching astronomy to beginners. The subject will be developed from observations of the most obvious phenomena made with comparatively simple astronomical instruments, following the lines of a plan prepared for the "Committee on Admission Requirements...
...order to defray the expenses inourred in printing the tickets and the shingles, each delegate will be required to pay a nominal sum. Sine shingles will be given only to the delegates who have actually participated in the convention, they will not be presented until after May 18, the time when the Convention will meet...
...games were postponed for the spring recess, Harvard having somewhat of an advantage in position in both games, particularly in the Scotch. Shortly after the recess, a rather surprising communication was received asking that the games be postponed "sine die." The reasons which Yale gave for this proposition were that she considered the game even, and that it was difficult to make the moves at this time of year...
...none so much as because it shows again that the relation between students and faculty is one of close understanding and sympathy. That the work of the men on probation should improve and bring them safely within the specified standards of the college was of course a sine qua non to their restoration to regular standing at any time. The fact that they have made that improvement, however, would not have been enough in itself to get them off probation so early. The petition was granted at this time because of "the character and assurances" of those who signed...
...Appleton chapel yesterday afternoon. He took as his text the latter part of the seventh and first of the eighth chapters of St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans: "For the good that I would, I do not; but the evil which I would not, that I do" No sine are really small, but on the contrary are perilous and unhappy. Some sins come to us from a bad heart and thus leave us in a condition more susceptible to sin than before. Thus it is that there are two lives open to us. We must either live in sprit...