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...disown him, he lectured to the natives and endeavored to have them conform to his own ideas. He succeeded so well that he was invited to come to England and lecture. This to come to England and lecture. This he did, and everywhere the people were astonished at his broad views; and wherever he spoke he was listened to by great audiences...
...Lord Bacon that the rays of the sun are reflected by a white body and absorbed by a black. But, despite these indications of nature and philosophy, we have all our reading matter in direct opposition to the suggestions of optical science. The human eye cannot long sustain the broad glare of a white surface without injury. People exposed for a long time to the glare of a sandy desert or a continuous stretch of snow are usually affected injuriously. The British soldiers in Egypt and Lieutenant Danenhower of the Jeannette expedition may be instanced as cases where the sight...
...training new men. There are several events, which we have sometimes won and sometimes lost during past years, some of which we must win next May in order to win the cup. Unfortunately our best athletes in these particular events have graduated, so that for the mile run, the broad and pole jump and the shot and hammer, we have, at present, no one as good as last year. All these events need long and careful preparation and constant practice. We are therefore much surprised that the Athletic Association has not taken any steps as yet in regard to helping...
...next row standing with their wings stretched out from the shoulders, and those behind extending their wings into the air; in the centre Peithetairos and Basileia, seated, in white wedding garments, with Euelpides, Prometheus, Herakles, Poscidon, and Triballos around them, and the hoopoe at the back spreading his broad yellow wings above them all. As before, Dr. Charles Waldstein, who has just been appointed the director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, at Cambridge, had charge of the stage management and the archaeology of the undertaking...
Before the war-a phrase which dates most important events in Southern history-this was pre-eminently the college of the South, writes a correspondent of the New York Tribune from the University of Virginia. It had few rivals, and its broad methods of study and liberal discipline drew the young man of family, the chivalric blood which is the precious Southern tradition, to its halls. Most educated men older than forty in the South have spent a season here, and even now, with the multiplication of State universities and privately endowed colleges in the South Atlantic and Gulf States...