| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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