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...profoundly impressive sight. The moon is full at 6.35 p. m. on that day. The eclipse begins at 4.30 p. m., but its total phase does not commence until 5.31. The middle of the eclips is reached at 6.20, and the total phase ends at 7.09, but the earth's shadow does not entirely clear the lunar disc until...
...Until at evening when the setting sun Touches with last caress the, passive earth...
...Athletic Association is unwilling to cover the track on Holmes with water, Jarvis Field still remains. It is true that the ground is higher than Holmes Field but this fact does not make it impossible nor even very difficult to flood the field. A low embankment either of earth or snow would be sufficient to keep the water from running off, and if the field is flooded when the ground is frozen hard there will be no danger of the water's sinking through the soil before ice can be formed. The city of Cambridge last year, when the plan...
...ground. We have all of us seen the champion step forth from his place, while the ball was dead, to pat the ground where the ball was likely to pitch, and we have even occasionally seen him apparently successful in discovering some small stone or lump of hard earth which he has incontinently thrown away. (It has been said by the scoffing herd that the missile is not always seen to fall; but that is a detail.) Now a very slight irregularity where the ball pitches will affect the course which the ball afterwards follows; a ball which would break...
...lectures, laboratory work and excursions under the care of Prof. N. S. Shaler assisted by Mr. T. W. Harris. Prof. Shaler will lecture every week day in the field or laboratory on the following subjects: 1. The general principles of the application of force to the surface of the earth; 2. Erosion by rivers and by the sea; 3. Glacial phenomena; 4. Faults, veins and dikes. July 24, the expedition will be made from Cambridge to New Britain, Conn.; July 25 to 29, at or near New Britain. From there a trip will be made to the Catskill Mountains...