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...story free from serious defects is "The Aristocrat." As it stops when its logical end is reached, it has the unusual distinction of leaving something to the Willing imagination of the reader. "Nathaniel," though rather fantastically improbable, is interesting and clever. "Fog and Sunlight," "Old Humphry's Spook" and "Samuel" are all of the bad dream variety and are all of the bad dream variety and are inferior in treatment because their authors had nothing...
...Observatory has abandoned its attempts to photograph the expected shower of leonids this year in consequence of the unusual rarity of meteors which have been sighted. On Friday night a watch was kept for the shower but only a few desultory meteors fell before a fog arose and precluded further observations. A casual watch was again kept on Saturday night, but not a single meteor was observed. As the extraordinary showers which were predicted to occur about the year 1899 have not materialized, it is probable that the Observatory will make no further attempt to obtain photographs of leonids...
Francis Fisher, of the class of 1903, was drowned off Sea Girt, N. J., on the night of July 14 last. He was cruising on the yacht Spalpeen, which was run down in a fog by the Clyde liner Benefactor, on that night. Fisher climbed aboard the Benefactor without accident, but in trying to return to the yacht, fell into the sea and was carried astern by the tide. He kept afloat for several minutes, and asked that a boat be put down for him. This was not done, but instead the Benefactor was backed up toward...
...Every morning now we have mounted regimental drill. Six hundred horses galloping in column of fours is a fine wave of power. The dust lifts up so thick it is like a fog, and you can barely see the next man ahead. Half-blinded, wet with sweat, and the horses on both sides rubbing against your legs, you go tearing, galloping on. Then suddenly through the white wall of dust you see the haunches of the horses ahead sink down and a hand shoot upward with the fingers spread apart. There is a quick jam, a creaking and rubbing...
POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., June 8.- The Harvard crews arrived here at 1.20 today. On account of a fog in Long Island Sound, they missed connection with the Hudson River boat and came by train. They did not get dinner until about six o'clock. After dinner both crews took a short spin...