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...seracs, crevasses, dirt bands, and moraines, the latter being tinted according to the rocks from which they are derived. Below the foot of the glacier, there are several abandoned moraines, one of which encloses a small lake. The rock ledges down the valley and on its slopes for a certain height above the ice are rounded and striated with surprising verisimilitude, indicating the former extent of the glacier. The model of the torrent illustrates the early stages of valley growth, when the little head water branch streams are gnawing backwards with great rapidity into the plateau country above them. Landslides...
...Crawley read a very interesting paper on the principal theories of the construction of matter. The first thing in regard to the construction of matter of which we have any account is what may be called the "substantia" theory which maintains that all matter had for its basis a certain principle, a substance, and the various forms in which matter exists are the results of different influences brought to bear upon the primary substance. This theory was superseded by the four element theories of the school of Aristotle which taught that all matter was the result of the combination...
...recent majority and minority reports to the Board of Overseers on the Political Economy department have awakened a certain amount of public discussion, as the Nation testifies by the editorial in its last issue on "Protection in the Colleges." Mr. John T. Morse, Jr., chairman of the investigating committee, emphatically protests against the course adopted by the instructors at Harvard toward the doctrine of protection and laments that Harvard sends forth every year "a solid phalanx of free traders...
...exercised over the annual graduation from Harvard of a "solid phalanx of free-traders," he should rather attack the spirit of the university which enables men to form their own decisions, than advocate the appointment of professors of Protection, whose aim would be to impose upon Harvard students certain doctrines opposed to the results of those students' reasoning...
...feared by some that the Jews will soon attain too great a power in the world by reason of their vast riches but this was thought by Professor Toy to be a cause for little fear. It is true that there is a certain antagonism to, and prejudice against, the Jews but this is gradually vanishing. Then, too, it must be remembered that the Christians were the ones responsible for the degraded position of the Jews in the Middle Ages, since they were at that time forbidden to own lands and were thus driven to be traders. It has been...