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...extend their hearty thanks to the actors in "Hernani" who have consented to perform again, for after the novelty of the thing has worn off, acting becomes irksome to amateur performers and considerable inducement is required to get them to act out their parts under such circumstances. The same method of [disposing of the tickets, which worked so well at the first sale will be tried again, and it is needless to add that haste is desirable in making out the applications...
...Greek 7, after the reforms of Cleis Thenis have been finished, the lectures will be devoted to a study of Grecian Chronology, the method of(????) 3 (Paragraph...
About a year ago experiments were begun at the request of U. S. Signal Service by Prof. Trowbridge on the subject of atmospheric electricity with a view to learn its value for meteorological purposes. The method employed was that known as the Thompson one and required very delicate instruments. The result is that a beam of light from a gas flame is reflected from a mirror upon a prepared sheet of sensitried paper and the record of any change in the place of an electric needle is thus obtained by photography. The apparatus in use has several new points...
...instruction. Look at Yale. It starts in, thoroughly disorganized, to learn an entirely new system. Four of the men rowed last year, but this only renders matters more difficult, for they are so firmly set in their old ways that it will be double work to instill the new method into their minds. The system I advocate is essentially English, except as we rig the boat, the foot boards are nearer the seats than those in England. Then, again, we use a shorter oar by two or three inches than the English oarsmen...
...various processes of smelting were carefully explained and the improvements which have taken place since the rise of the industry were described, from the primitive method to the present blast furnace, each receiving a careful description. The pudding process which was formerly a very important industry, requiring over 2,000,000 tons of ore in 1882, is rapidly passing away and being superseded by soft steel, which the lecturer described at some length...