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" I call it singular because, if we confine ourselves to the record, it would he difficult to assign any obvious reason for it. One fact is indisputable, and that is the wonderful success of the director in selecting young men who were to make the institution... "
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific - Page 75
by Astronomical Society of the Pacific - 1913
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The Reminiscences of an Astronomer

Simon Newcomb - 1903 - 510 pages
...unpopularity of the director. I call it singular because, if we confine ourselves to the record, it would be difficult to assign any obvious reason for it. One...selecting young men who were to make the institution famous by their abilities and industry. If the highest problem of administration is to select the right...
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The Reminiscences of an Astronomer

Simon Newcomb - 1903 - 454 pages
...ten years. To me its most singular feature was the constantly growing unpopularity of the director. I call it singular because, if we confine ourselves to the record, it would be difficult to assign any obvious reason for it. One fact is indisputable, and that is the wonderful...
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Biographical Memoirs, Volume 8

National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) - 1919 - 562 pages
...ten years. To me its most singular feature was the constantly growing unpopularity of the director. I call it singular because, if we confine ourselves...selecting young men who were to make the institution famous by their abilities and industry. If the highest problem of administration is to select the right...
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Biographical Memoirs, Volume 8

National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) - 1919 - 564 pages
...ten years. To me its most singular feature was the constantly growing unpopularity of the director. I call it singular because, if we confine ourselves to the record, it would be difficult to assign any obvious reason for it. One fact is indisputable, and that is the wonderful...
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The NAEP ... Technical Report

1972 - 646 pages
...singular feature [of Holden's administration] was the constantly growing unpopularity of the director. I call it singular because, if we confine ourselves to the record, it would be difficult to assign any obvious reason for it. One fact is indisputable, and that is the wonderful...
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The Immortal Fire Within: The Life and Work of Edward Emerson Barnard

William Sheehan - 1995 - 460 pages
...brought together to live and work on Mt. Hamilton. 'One fact is indisputable,' Newcomb wrote later, 'and that is the wonderful success of the director...selecting young men who were to make the institution famous by their abilities and industry.'22 Probably Holden's greatest coup was to lure Sherburne Wesley...
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