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...will look this way, I will show you some of its fine points. In the first place, by touching a hidden spring, the cover over the face flies back and discloses the hours all beautifully engraved on a white background. Here, again, you see the hands, three in number and of different sizes. In the three hands you must recognize an especial advantage, for even if two hands get broken you still have one left to show the time; also you cannot fail to see the wisdom of having hands of different sizes, for, to a near-sighted person...
...Harvard Register for June is the best number that has yet appeared. It is a model of typographical excellence and care, in which respect we know of no other American magazine, excepting, perhaps, Scribner's, that equals it. The articles this time are unusually interesting, comprising a paper on Phillips Exeter Academy, by C. G. Kidder; The Agricultural School as a Preparation for the Study of Medicine, by Professor F. H. Storer; another batch of General Oliver's Reminiscences; essays by Professors Trowbridge and Shaler, and several other contributions. The Class of 1830, by G. W. Warren, is a pleasing...
...remarks, can be found in the results of a semi-annual examination, the books for which were recently returned. After patient consideration we have surmised that part of the books were marked fairly. We also have ground for supposing that when the instructor was fatigued he counted the number of books, put an equal amount of numbers in a hat, and then drew them. Somehow or other only three denominations were used, consequently a large proportion of the books had either 73, 64 or 46 per cent. That from six to twelve students whose ranks varied largely last year, should...
...Sanskrit, - a subject for the tuition of which little financial provision was made. One instructor was kind enough to teach Sanskrit during a long time for - nothing. The same gentleman has still the charge of the Sanskrit instruction. He has been a member of the Faculty for a number of years long enough to entitle him to a Professor's chair according to President Eliot's own scheme of promotion. And yet when the time came to have a Professor of Sanskrit that instructor was passed over and a young man called to take the place. Here was the opportunity...
...records have been bettered by American amateurs, which are certainly worthy of more than a passing mention, but lack of space will prevent our giving any extended account of the performances. Early in the fall, the tables, corrected up to the date of publication, will be given with each number of the Crimson, but until then the following list of corrections will have to suffice. To begin with the Table of American College records, we have discovered that Mr. Dick's 1-4 mile record of 53 seconds was not made in College Sports, but in the Keystone Athletic Club...