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...define more clearly the special object of the course, it may be stated that the idea of its promoters is to establish a systematic culture in exercise, and to reduce sport to a scientific basis. With that end in view, the lectures will go back to the earliest known times, and the history of gymnastics will be traced, and therefrom will be deduced results, so that the student can get for his own work the proper methods...
...possibilities for our University in the line of development of astronomical study. A great drawback to accurate observation and the use of large apparatus at Cambridge has been the atmospheric conditions. In Peru, however, the atmospheric conditions are most extraordinarily favorable for the study the heavens; although the chief object of the recent very successful expedition to Peru by Prof. W. H. Pickering was the photographing of the planet Mars, yet the careful visual observations were made at the same time which have led to most interesting results. Another event of this visit was the construction of a meteorological station...
...clearest atmosphere in the world, there is a pressing need for an instrument of the most powerful order. In consequence of this Prof. Edward C. Pickering has edited an eloquent pamphlet, calling for $200,000 for the manufacture and establishment of a suitable telescope. Money donated for such an object could not fail to bring immediate results, and it is hoped that this way now opening for Harvard may soon be clear for the earning of highest honors at the hands of her professors in the study of astronomy...
...graduate advisory committee of the Inter-Collegiate Football Association held a meeting Saturday at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, the object being to select umpires for the championship games. Each college in the league sent its representative, and the following appointments were made...
...there is an exhortation as well as an object lesson in the parable. Unlike the clay the human being has power to resist the operation of the wheel and the potter's hand. A man predetermins his own course. He may from choice make himself, against conscience and God, bad. The responsibility, then, rests on each of us to cooperate with, rather than resist the forces which are shaping our lives...