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...Orange Athletic Club is to convert its indoor tennis courts into a practice cage for the base ball players...
...matter was the result of the combination of tire, water, earth and air This theory held during the Middle Ages and was the inspiration of the Alchemists who thought that, since all the metals were composed of these four elements and no others, it would be possible to convert the baser metals into the precious ones by a simple change. The decomposition of water by Lavasier, of course, broke up this theory, since one of the supposed elements was compound, and not an element in itself. Very soon after this we have the Daultorian theory of atoms which...
Class Day, as the name implies, should be a day for the members of '86 to entertain their friends. There has been a very noticeable tendency in past years to convert this day into a general holiday for the public of all classes of Cambridge and Boston. That the many objectionable characters who have thronged the yard on Class Day evening should not be allowed among our relatives and friends, needs of course only to be asserted...
These plans are very attractive, and would effect a great improvement upon the present condition of things; but it would be a better plan to convert the old Gore Hall into a fireproof bookstack, and to build a new reading-room on the north side, and so attached that no reasonable objection could be taken to lighting the room. Such a reading-room ought to have seats for at least 250 persons, and should be provided with coat-rooms and dressing-rooms, that students who have no rooms in Cambridge might find themselves comfortably provided for at the reading-room...
...last eleven years Yale has graduated nine hundred and sixteen free traders and but thirty protectionists. The majority of its alumni are protectionists, however, if President White, of Cornell, speaks truly, when he says that four years in business would convert three-fourths of the free trade college graduates to protection...