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...meeting, in discussing the topic "The People and the Schools," was intended to define the vague dissatisfaction of the people with the schools and the equally vague dissatisfaction on the part of the teachers, and a way to correct the shortcomings was sought. Teachers brought out their side of the case in the morning session, and the people's point of view was represented at the dinner...
...report is correct that negotiations with Princeton in regard to baseball games next spring have been broken off. The fact that Princeton would play three games or none made it impossible to negotiate further...
...through the line and made at least short gains inevitable. This Yale style of attack has been the basis of her offense throughout the season. The Harvard coaches knew it and gave the eleven some practice in stopping it in the games with the second team; but the correct defense could not be found. This was evident from the very start, when Yale began to gain slowly and steadily through the line. The excellence of this formation was, therefore, the principal cause of the defeat. There were also several less important causes: The Yale line was heavier, stronger and faster...
...itself, by helping us to refresh the mental images we have there, which naturally are always fading away. Photography also enables us to get visual ideas of many things we have never seen because they are at a distance; and it will probably enable men in future to have correct visual images of things that will have disappeared from the world...
...took home with them as specimens of the new world's flora. Since, in botany, classification rests upon a historical basis, any one who first describes a new plant has the right to give that plant a scientific name, which, thereafter, must be accepted by botanists as the only correct one. Further, if he preserves a specimen of his newly discovered plant, it becomes a type. In many cases the description given by the discoverers, especially the Spanish explorers of America are very inadequate. Consequently, when further exploration brings to light numerous species of the same genera as the types...