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...Bunsen Battery on the Western Union Telegraph lines. These batteries are in form like the Bunsen Battery; the Bichromate Battery, though improving little on the Bunsen in cleanness, yet gets rid of the fumes which make the latter battery so disagreeable for use. The Ammonic Nitrate Battery gives forth no fumes, and is perfectly clean, is more constant than the Bunsen, and of about the same strength. In the glass cell are used sulphuric acid and water, with zinc; and in the porous cup gas carbon and a saturated solution of ammonic nitrate in nitric acid. The important improvements made...
...hands makes the game much more exciting and interesting. Again, we do not hesitate to claim the superiority of the leather ball over the rubber one. The former, besides retaining the air better, can be kicked both farther and straighter, and will last a much longer time. In setting forth the advantages of the Rugby rules and ball, we only ask a fair, impartial hearing from the Association. The fact that Harvard has played the game for the last year or so should be no obstacle to its adoption. The rules themselves, not the College, should be criticised...
...Pouring forth shrill whistles...
...every one who leads it. After describing the scenery around the University, giving a pleasant little item to prove that this University was more patriotic than any other during the Rebellion, and bestowing some valuable information concerning the occupations of the students during the summer months, the writer breaks forth into the following eloquent strains...
...University of Vermont at Saratoga - the fact of their not belonging to the Association of American Colleges being of course of no account, as they undoubtedly would be received into it with open arms upon the expression of the slightest wish to belong to it - which are set forth in the conclusion of the letter must be satisfactory both to themselves and every one else: for if they are too busy, that is their own business; if they are too poor, every one will allow that Saratoga is not the place for them; and if they are too proud, surely...