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In the middle of an open space in the aforesaid settlement, there stood a thin, gaunt specimen of mankind, holding in his hand a weather-beaten hunting-case watch, whose virtues he was expounding thus: "My friends, I would call your attention to this elegant silver watch; but before asking...
THE bath tubs in the Gymnasium have been abused. Some persons who were too aristocratic to lie down would put the cricket in the tub and sit on it. This, of course, was ruining the bottom of the tubs, and to stop it the crickets have been taken away and...
THE Acta Columbiana has several Harvard items, among others a list of "those trying for the Sophomore Crew," and something about substitutes on the 'Varsity, distributed among their own locals without any mention of the fact that they don't belong to Columbia. It must astonish Columbia Sophs. to find...
THOSE who have read the last annual report of the President will remember the recommendation contained there of establishing a system of promotion for instructors: a Tutor to be raised, after a certain time, to the rank of Assistant Professor; an Assistant Professor to the rank of Professor. The recommendation...
Then on a huge car was exhibited the mechanical wonder of wonders, - the marking machine; it has the extraordinary power of always running down without requiring to be wound up. Its inventor has also discovered perpetual motion, and is now busy squaring the circle. A regiment of soldiers guarded this...