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...special car was destroyed. Otis Strong of Auburn, N. Y., had both legs crushed, and one of them at least will have to be amputated. W. W. Crehore of Cleveland, O., had one of his legs badly broken, and C. W. Cutler was severely cut about the head. All the rest of the students were more or less shaken up and bruised. The wounded were taken to Lonisville where they are receiving every attention. It is expected that both Crehore and Strong, despite their injuries, will recover...
...Lord Mayor of London, in welcoming Professor Huxley to the city recently, suggested that the position of President of the Royal Society was really one of even greater importance than that of Prime Minister; Mr. Gladstone is chief Minister of England, but Professor Huxley was "the head of the intellectual life of the world...
...accent entirely round a class, eliciting Various crude guesses, and then dryly remarked: "It is a misprint." Many will remember his question as to what was done with the persons who were killed at Thermopylae. This called out various answers, to Which he replied by a shake of his head; but when one hopeless freshman replied that he did not know, he answered: "That is right; nobody knows." These anecdotes, with a thousand others, both historical and mythical, are very characteristic of his style of teaching, which did not always follow strictly scientific methods...
...half feet long, and three feet eight inches wide. Each candidate takes a call, and at daylight receives a paper with which he must deal without leaving the place. Three thousand policemen and servants are near at hand to see that he doesn't play any tricks, and his head would probably be the penalty if he attempted to do so. Next morning he hands in his paper and departs for a day's rest, returning twenty-four hours afterward for more work, and so on for three successive trials. At the close of the examination the papers, which...
...interests it proposes to advance. So far the letter seems to deserve attention, and enough notice of it ought to be taken to arouse an inquiry as to whether the Harvard Veterinary School is in reality pursuing the most successful course when it succeeds in bringing down on its head the maledictions of the veterinary profession in its neighborhood...