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...found, notably the announcement of a series of lectures on Egypt to be delivered in Cambridge, Boston, New York and other cities by Miss A. B. Edwards, of London. The lectures will be on ancient as well as modern Egypt, and will treat of the discoveries made of recent years by the Egypt Exploration Fund...
Notwithstanding the recent cold weather the university crew has persistently remained at work on the river, and will continue to row there until the Christmas vacation if it is possible. Goddard, '92, has rowed stroke; Perkins, Hutchinson, and Jones have rowed at different times at No. 7; Longworth and Watriss have rowed No. 6; Finlay rows No. 5; Upham, No. 4; Nelson '93, Perkins, and Jones alternate at No. 3, Lothrop and Watriss at No. 2, and Herrick and Jones at bow. After the vacation, the crew will begin to work in the gymnasium with the weights, and as soon...
...Christmas number of Harper's Weekly of today's issue contains a double page cut of the Yale-Princeton foot-ball match and gives a very interest account of the game. It also contains several illustrations of the districts in the recent Boston and Lynn fires...
...toastmaster introduced Mr. Garrison. He urged that all men should give up their personal comfort to try for the teams, train, or at least applaud on the field. "Imogene Donahue" was followed by a short speech from Dr. F. M. Weld, '60. He said that he understood Harvard's recent action to mean that she is unwilling to trust her teams to a committee composed of outsiders. He had no fears about Harvard's being left alone. Mr. S. E. Winslow, '85, was then introduced. After some witty remarks, he gave his theory for Yale's success that their faculty...
...Josepe Henry noticed in 1835 that a Leyden jar gave out not one spark merely but several in succession. He discovered induction, and surmised wave motion, but he never thought of looking together for the source of that motion. It never occurred to him nor to us until very recently, that the electricity is not in the wires of an electrical apparatus, but in the outside air. The discovery of this fact is the great achievement of recent science...