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...regard to a statement from San Francisco to the effect that President Eliot was about to resign and that President Benjamin I. Wheeler of the University of California would succeed him, Mr. Charles Francis Adams said yesterday morning: "There is absolutely nothing in it. The rumor is entirely without foundation...
...Memorials," by Edward Everett Hale '39, Outlook of Dec. 29: "The Study of Mammalian Embryology" by Professor C. S. Minot, December American Naturalist: "On the Variation of the Statoblasts of Pectinatella Magniflea from Lake Michigan, at Chicago," by Professor C. B. Davenport. "Studies on the Cause of the Accelerating Effect of Heat upon Growth," by T. W. Galloway '90, "Pearson's Grammar of Science," by C. S. Pierce '95, and "Chapters on the Stars," by Professor Simon Newcomb '58, January. Popular Science Monthly; "Doctrine of Non-resistance," by John Jay Chapman '84, January Mind; "Current Notes on Meteorology...
Although all the men on the Banjo Club except five played last year, yet the pieces are still lacking in dash and rhythm. The time, also, is usually too slow for the best effect. The faults are gradually being corrected, and the club is playing better at every concert. These men are now retained with the club...
Each graduate is asked to state his opinion as to the benefit or harm resulting from the influence of the elective system in his case, and to answer several more specific questions,--as to the number of courses taken to evade hard work; the effect of the system on strenuousness of application; the opinion of the writer regarding prescribed studies in schools and colleges, and what the studies thus prescribed should be. If the questions meet with general and intelligent response the result will, it is believed, be of great importance in the whole matter of American education...
...thought is deeply philosophical and mystical. The action of the play is comprehended in three periods: Before the Incarnation; during and after the Crucifixion; and on the Judgment Day before dawn. Its story is mainly one of supernatural beings: Raphael's journey to earth is described, and also the effect of the Crucifixion on the Heavenly Hosts. The description of the celestial beings is very even and novel, while in form it is beautifully musical...