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...mental science that must be transmitted from generation to generation, by the fanatical intolerance which bars out all "new-fangled" notions may be imagined, but it is doubtful whether their scholastic ignorance goes quite so far as is related of the college engineers, in Constantinople. not many years ago. A committee of foreign engineers had been invited by the government to investigate the workings of the institution. Among the questions propounded to the mathematical professor of the faculty was one desiring the number of right angles comprised in a right-angled triangle. The professor requested permission to consult with...
...average time for calling these 100 names, is six minutes. Now when there are eighty men present, there is a complete loss of 8 hours time to the section as a whole, besides the loss of patience. Why are not monitors appointed? The lists must have been completed long ago. I understand also, that there is one course, in which there are 140 men, and eleven minutes are used by the watch. This would make a grand total of 25 hours lost...
...Some we know, will not admit that foot-ball can be taught in this definite way. But they need only notice this great improvement of foot-ball at Yale under Mr. Camp's coaching, and to learn about the wonderful work done by coaching at Adams Academy some years ago when the school was large,-to be convinced that foot-ball can be taught ; that it would be better to take the best men and teach them foot-ball, just as we take the best men and teach them how to row ; and that Harvard with an untrained eleven...
Much excitement was caused in Baltimore a few days ago by the discovery of an attempt by students of the University of Maryland to rob a grave in Mt. Olivet Cemetery. The attempt was discovered by the cemetery watchmen about midnight and the students were chased some distance, but made good their escape. No arrests have yet been made...
...than to urge them to renewed effort. It is to be hoped that they will take this rebuke in the right light and go to work determined to wipe out the defeat in a victory over Yale. The team is as good as it was a day or two ago and no one need feel discouraged or withold their support from the eleven just because they have persisted in over-rating its strength. Some time will elapse before the decisive struggle and all the class should turn in and help the captain in every possible...