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...Peckster Professorship" by J. P. Quincy is what one might call a psychical novel. The author seems to have caught the popular contagion among the novelists of the day and accordingly weaves a ??? thread through his story which gives it the appearance of a philosophical lecture rather than a novel. With a fair plot for a foundation he builds up a structure of mind imperishable, philosophy, astride counterpart, transcend ??al photography, ??? voyance, and ???notices, still the bewildered reader wonders whether he is still in his mortal body. Such a book may prove ??entertaining for those interested in psychical research, although...
...directors. Heretofore the handicap in match B has consisted of birds given to those who were not prize winners. Yesterday the men shot at different distances, according to their averages in former matches. The result was that the scores, though even, with the exception of the two highest, were rather low; two and three predominating. Three matches were started with the following score...
...enthusiasm, or rather the lack of enthusiasm, with which the college has supported the various athletic organizations in the past has ever been a fruitful theme of complaint on the part of the different college papers, and this fall has been no exception to the rule. But the attendance of three or four hundred students at a foot-ball game played in a drenching rain must have been a matter of surprise to any stranger who might have been present at Saturday's game. In no better way can the college show its appreciation of the praiseworthy efforts...
...Government should interfere. (a) The central power should interfere rather than a state power. (b) The laws are U. S. laws and the U. S. should enforce them. (c) The elections are U. S. elections and the U. S. does and should have jurisdiction over them. (d) The U. S. is the only power which can interfere satisfactorily...
...educational museum. If all the criticisms were as good humored as Professor Briggs' we could not complain. He has been most intimately associated with Harvard undergraduates for many years and surely knows whereof he speaks. His comments on the abstracting influence of outside work may seem to the undergraduates rather severe but at all events he is impartial in his severity. Every busy man will admit that his routine studies are sacrificed more or less to his societies, his papers or his athletics, but he will also claim that his outside work is of great value and his time...