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Professor Schilling is of the opinion that, ever since the Jameson raid, it has been certain that England's intention was to absorb the South African republics. Britain's unwillingness for a peaceable settlement when a fair proposal was made shows this, as does the continual massing of troops on the Boers' borders. The true inwardness of the matter is not and can not be known for some time, but right seems to be on the side of the Boers. At least the sight of a nation leaving all and going in a body to the front to fight...
...Freshman Club and would have similar clubs established in the other classes. Our correspondent thinks on the contrary that there is no field for further development of debating activity and that the lack of success of the Union and the Forum is due to the debating courses which absorb the whole interest of upper classmen...
...might result as to the eligibility of men for the proposed game. If this should be the case it would be only fair to allow members of the college nine to play on the Harvard Junior team, as there is no such organization at Yale and the class nines absorb all the good material not needed for the University squad...
...life when her own his orical development was augmented by the outside influence of other nations. He shatters the wall separating Russia for 700 years from the rest of the world. But Peter's name marks one transition moment. The personality of the Empress Catherine II seems to absorb the entire eighteenth century...
...rays will go through sheets of aluminum 1-10 of an inch thick; a greater thickness of aluminum will absorb only a portion of the rays. The glass of the Crooke's tube is only 1-60th of an inch thick, but even glass as thin as this absorbs so many rays that it presents great obstacles. It has been suggested that an aluminum window be put in the tube and that the photographs be taken with the rays that come through the aluminum, for the reason that the aluminum absorbs hardly any rays while the thinnest glass absorbs...