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...with regret that we feel called upon to notice the fact that the shingle thief has not yet been detected, and compelled to give up his dishonorable practice. We sincerely hope that no college student at Harvard has of late years ever been guilty of the very silly and reprehensible action of stealing signs, whether society shingles or private advertisements. If it is an outsider who is thus causing annoyance in the college, it is high time that the Cambridge police brought the offender to justice. If it is a student, it is to be hoped that the college sentiment...
...seminary library there are one thousand volumes, and in Professor Gildersleeve's study at least two thousand five hundred. There are not only the Greek and Latin authors in this collection, but nearly every production of every commentator upon certain classical authors. Professor Gildersleeve has been an omniverous reader ever since he was a boy of twelve. He showed me some of his note-books that he had written out while at Princeton. Whenever he finished reading a book he wrote in his note-book his opinions of the work, and made comparisons between it and other works. His favorite...
...Amherst correspondent of the Boston Journal gives Amherst a big boom in leaping - surpassing all records ever made; standing high jump...
...Completing the work of the small meridian photometer. During three years this instrument has been used in measuring the light of all the stars visible to the naked eye. There have been nearly a hundred thousand of these measurements, being the largest piece of photometric work ever accomplished. A large instrument of the same form has been constructed, and, with it, it is proposed to examine and determine the light of some nine thousand stars...
...river, is the Cottage meadow, or park, of seventy acres, given some years ago to Harvard College by Professor Henry W. Longfellow and others. This is to be kept open forever as a pleasure ground, upon which no buildings other than those fitted for such a park can ever be erected...