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Page 56 - Correspondingly, he advances the honor of his profession and the best interests of his client when he renders service or gives advice tending to impress upon the client and his undertaking exact compliance with the strictest principles of moral law.
Page 56 - ... and advise his client to observe the statute law, though until a statute shall have been construed and interpreted by competent adjudication, he is free and is entitled to advise as to its validity and as to what he conscientiously believes to be its just meaning and extent. But above all a lawyer will find his highest honor in a deserved reputation for fidelity to private trust and to public duty, as an honest man and as a patriotic and loyal citizen.
Page 102 - Act, to the endowment, support and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the legislature of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions of life.
Page 120 - ... on a moderate galvanometer. Now let the slightest surging occur, say by reason of a sphere being charged and discharged at a distance of forty yards ; the film at once breaks down — perhaps not completely, that is a question of intensity — but permanently.
Page 329 - ... the large culverts into the small lateral culverts and thence through the holes in the floor into the lock chamber. To empty a lock the valves at the upper end are closed and those at the lower end are opened and the water flows into the lower lock or pool in a similar manner. This system distributes the water as evenly as possible over the entire horizontal area of the lock and reduces the disturbance in the chamber when it is being filled or emptied.
Page 405 - ... Conservation of Natural Resources, held at the White House, May 13-15, 1908. Mr. Putnam employed the method of constructing curves based upon census statistics beginning with the year 1870, and projecting the resulting respective curves from the dates of the latest census figures to the year 1910. Making due allowance for the check to our industrial progress, which began in 1907, it is safe to say that at the present time the aggregate horse power of prime movers installed for industrial use...
Page 405 - ... saves at least 7.5 net tons of coal per annum. 2. Present knowledge does not permit us to obtain from coal burned for power purposes, even under conditions of best commercial practice, more than 10% of the energy which it contains; under average conditions less than 5% is utilized. 3. Electricity enables us to substitute a few and comparatively efficient steam plants for large numbers of small and relatively wasteful installations; thus effecting important economies not only in fuel consumption,...
Page 251 - The state board of health may reverse or modify an order, regulation, by-law or ordinance of a local board of health concerning a matter which in its judgment, affects the public health beyond the territory over which such local board has jurisdiction; and may exercise exclusive jurisdiction over all lands acquired by the state for sanitary purposes.
Page 222 - ... square edge die and the improved die. A test made on this machine with two samples of good pipe gave the results shown in Table 3. The dies were both in good condition; it is from this trial that the preceding ratios are determined. TABLE 3. The samples used in the above test were ordinary good quality pipe picked out at random. A series of tests along this line would no doubt develop somewhat different results according to the kind and hardness of the material, but I believe the above is a fair...
Page 251 - It shall be the duty of the Commissioner of Health to protect the health of the people of the State, and to determine and employ the most efficient and practical means for the prevention and suppression of disease.