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...Davis' lecture last night before fifty members of the Electric club was especially valuable and interesting to those who haved decided on electrical engineering as a profession. His advice to such was to begin in a factory and become conversant with details, whatever branch of electricity they might afterwards follow. Then he showed a number of specifications for lighting contracts and carefully went through these commenting on the principal points; giving the benefit of his experience in the different kinds of dynamos, lamps, fuses, wires, meters, etc. The overhead system for street lighting is not per se any more dangerous...
Every student is required to follow implicitly the direction in regard to paper, folding, endorsing etc., given in the printed rules of the course...
...author divides his subject into two parts. The physiological and the psychological sides considering memory as a "double faced unity." The system taught here does not very greatly from all the others "invented" or discovered of late years. It is a very elaborate system of forcing the mind to follow numerous links in a chain of suggestions till the final object-the thing to be remembered-is reached. The connection between these links is so slight sometimes as to be more amusing than impressive. To the reviewer's mind it takes a good memory to learn to remember according...
Princeton has decided to follow the example of other colleges and adopt a blazer and cap of special design to be worn exclusively by the members of the different athletic teams...
...Lyman Abbott delivered a sermon last night to a large crowd of interested hearers. His text was the words of Christ reiterated frequently in the gospels-"follow thou Me." The common idea of Christianity is that if offers to the world the alternative of a Heaven in which all is joy and a Hell in which all is pain; Heaven is to be gained by "believing in the Lord Jesus Christ," and Hell by disbelieving. Why do not all believe? Because this idea is a pagan idea grafted upon the pure stem of Christian faith. Christ does not offer anything...