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...Such a system as the new one proposed for admission requirements," says an exchange, "would let a man graduate at Harvard without ever parsing mensa or looking at a Greek alphabet; a consummation that President Eliot is known to have long devoutly wished...
...severest hail storms ever known in the West occurred at Denver yesterday. Hailstones measuring an inch in diameter lay six inches deep in the streets...
Baker is playing an exceptionally strong game at short this year. His stops are sure and his throws are accurate. His general play is noticeable for promptness and accuracy. He exercises greater care in his play than ever before. He is batting well and his base running is good...
...would work. But a theory which looked very plausible while as yet untried proves a failure when put to a practical test. The prospect of a general adoption of the rule does not grow brighter as time goes by, but, on the contrary, appears dimmer than ever. We still cling to our former position, therefore, in requesting the faculty either to rescind the rule or so to modify it as to do away with its objectionable features...
...ornaments, arrowheads composed of different substances, terra cotta images illustrative of the dress and appearance of the people, plates of mica, specimens of native gold and silver, sea shells, hatchets, together with the bones of various animals, and, above all, several specimens of meteorie iron, which are the first ever discovered in these mounds. By the aid of the stereopticon Dr. Putnam was enabled to represent a number of these curious relics upon the canvass, which with the drawings of mounds lent no little additional attractiveness to the lecture...