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Louis How, '95 tells the story of his grandfather, James B. Eads, the engineer, a great man who did not owe his greatness to political success; whose greatness was of such a stamp that he was not allured by suggestions of political influence as a reward for brilliant achievements in another line. He was a man without schooling, but of great genius, and an indefatigable worker; the story of his rise from walking the Mississippi bottom under a diving-bell to the position of the leading hydraulic engineer of his time, and more than any other man, the river...
...actor a desire which was not controlled by religious feeling. Everything in the Jews' daily life had a been spiritual significance. Examples of their domestic life, their homely customs and habits, were all plainly portrayed within the pages of the Talmud, and to this book we owe our present knowledge of the Jews' early life and manners...
...play is full of amusing situations, in one of which a foppish French tailor, in search of the latest fashions, falls in with a company of courtiers who owe him money. There follows some very amusing horseplay, characteristic of the time in which the comedy is written. Another series of amusing incidents is afforded by numerous mistakes occuring during the progress of an elopement. The King finally settles all the disputes, and the play ends with the marriage of Ismenia and Don Julio together with the reconciliation of the hostile families...
...place than a scuffing of feet, a drum beat on the resonant desk, or a dry episode coming from three benches away. Some communication is necessary and so, of course, is walking, but I suggest that the students be reminded of their present thoughtlessness and of the regards they owe to the rights of other people. The College has done its share by the numerous placards posted about the building; all that is left is an appeal to manners and a sense of justice...
...following list contains the first ten tennis players in the country as prepared by the committee: D. F. Davis '00, Edwin P. Fisher and Dr. James Dwight: M. D. Whitman '99 (owe 1-6), D. F. Davis '00 (scratch), W. H. Larned (scratch), J. P. Paret, K. Collins, G. L. Wrenn, Jr., '96, L. E. Ware '99, B. C. Wright '03, H. Ward '00, R. T. Huntington. The other Harvard men ranked as follows: 19, E. R. Marvin '99; 21, A. Codman '97; 22, R. McKittrick '99; 30, S. P. Ware...