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...Franklin MacVeagh, Secretary of the Treasury, delivered a lecture in Emerson D last evening on "The Life of the Business Man." Special stress on the importance of trade and industry in the world's progress was laid by Mr. MacVeagh...
...Technology, already has a new glider of the Wright type in the hangar on the field. There is only one hangar completed thus far, but at the time of the meet there will be more to shelter the gliders of the universities which outer. While the meet is in progress it is probable that members of the aviation school conducted by W. Starling Burgess Co., of Marble head, will give short exhibition flights at the field...
...association held a preliminary meeting last June, when plans for the present organization were discussed. The final arrangements for the organization of the association will be arranged this evening. In addition to organization, the progress of the work for the new chemical laboratories at the University will be explained...
...books in this collection exemplify the work of many of the world's greatest printers, from the fifteenth century to the present time, and thus illustrate not only the progress of classical scholarship but also the history of the art of printing. The collection consists of editions, translations, revisions, and re-issues, together with a large number of writings on Persius, a Roman satirist born in 34 A. D., and third in order of the great Roman satirists. His work is chiefly devoted to the exposition of the doctrine propounded by the stories and developed according to their doctrine...
Remarkable progress has been made in the last few years in the construction of telescopes and especially in the construction of those instruments made for photographing celestial bodies. This progress seems all the more wonderful when one considers the very great problems to be solved. One of the most difficult of these problems is that of contending against the varying atmospheric conditions, but the modern instruments are so skillfully constructed that photographs of marvelous clearness have been obtained in spite of the varying density and light of the air strata...