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...enormous undertaking of spanning the English Channel by a bridge is under consideration in France, and plans have been drawn. The proposed structure will connect Cran-aux-Oeufs with Folkestone, a distance of twenty-two miles. The estimated cost is $200,000,000, and the time required for construction seven years...
...will be brick and the structure will be well lighted, through large glass windows in the roof. The building is to be used as a fives court and base-ball cage but will not contain a swimming pool as has been rumored. One set of plans has already been drawn up but as these have not proved acceptable another set will soon be completed...
...them, leaving their smaller rivals to survive as best they can. The reasons are obvious enough: the advantages and resources possessed by rich universities are greater, the competition among the students keener, the stakes higher, and the applause following the winner louder than among the smaller colleges. Harvard has drawn within its walls more than one hundred new recruits during the past year. Is there any good reason why it should not continue to attract even more...
...reading matter. The editorials are bright and forcible as usual. "A Mexican Village" is a fair bit of description of the placid life in the growing state of our neighbors. "John Bryant's Ride" is an unusually well written story. In a few lines a situation is very forcibly drawn. There is not a sentence nor a word too much; the movement of the story shows great vigor. "An Automaton" is a very remarkable study and deserves a careful perusal and thoughtful consideration. It is with no mean descriptive talent that the author has succeeded in tracing the various steps...
This week's Nation contains a very interesting description of the recent production of the Greek tragedy, "OEdipus" at Cambridge, England. Comparisons are drawn between the styles of the various actors there and at the performance of the same play here in Sanders Theatre a few years ago. The author closes his remarks by "I would say that the difference between the two representations of 'King OEdipus"- apart from the music of which I have already spoken-is the difference between painting and sculpture. The American play was sculpturesque and the English play was picturesque...