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...machinery and the tramping of students from interfering with delicate observations. The basement of the central piece is occupied by receiving-rooms and storage for heavy pieces of apparatus. The western section is the one which the professors and instructors of physics have most carefully considered. The lower floor contains rooms of moderate size devoted to general use and special investigations, - rooms which will be fitted up with reference to electricity, heat, magnetism and sound. In each room of the first floor there are independent piers, built up from the basement, insulated from the walls and floors, upon which delicate...
...WEATHER.WASHINGTON, D. C., May 2, 1883, 1 A. M. For New England, fair weather, followed in the south portion by local rains, southerly shifting to northeasterly winds, stationary or lower temperature and pressure...
...there. The son of well-to-do parents is rarely seen there - now less so than ever, since the universities have become the rendezvous of the proletariat that clamors first for bread and then for patriotic deeds. The name of student has become a by-word with the lower classes of Russia, and the St. Petersburg student must take care not to betray his calling in the street if he would be safe from occasional maltreatment at the hands of coach-drivers and laborers. Excluded as he is from good society, and confined to that of his associates, poverty-stricken...
...services which we commonly expect of a janitor are rendered for seniors or sixth-form men at Rugby, by the boys in the lower forms. The first-form boy blacks his senior's shoes, runs his errands, prepares his breakfast and holds himself in readiness to do almost anything that his senior wishes. This is called "fagging." "The sixth-form boy may be a tailor's son, the first-form fag the son of a duke; school distinctions take precedence of all others." This custom of fagging is gradually dying out, however, much to the disgust of the conservative fathers...
...WEATHER.WASHINGTON, D. C., April 27, 1883, 1 A. M. For New England, slightly warmer weather, southerly to westerly winds, lower barometer, partly cloudy weather and rain in the northern portions...