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University of Cambridge--William Napier Shaw, Sc.D., LL.D., Hon. Sc.D., h.'09, Honorary Fellow of Emmanuel College; Director of the London Meteorological office; Reader in Meteorology in the University of London. John Christopher Willis, A.M., ScD., h.'09, Fellow of Gonville and Calus College; Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Ceylon...
...Each separate work will be preceded by a concise introduction; and notes and glossaries will be provided whenever they seem likely to increase the reader's enjoyment and profit...
...table of collegiate records. How many Harvard men of today know that Wendell Baker's quarter-mile, though run straightaway, was merely one of a series of extraordinary performances on his part. His records appear on a special board in the meeting room of the Gymnasium, but what reader of the Illustrated would go near the Gymnasium! Kilpatrick's half-mile should scarcely be called a collegiate record. It was made in the international meet of 1895 when he ran for the New York A. C. And what bright has struck the high jump in these latter days? William Bird...
...College Courses" affords racy reading. We can imagine the reader sitting with the elective pamphlet in one hand saying, "Who is it that gives Abyzsinian 29 which is conducted in an insipid way, although the lecturer has great ability?" We wish that we could hope that instructors might profit by the exceeding multitude of conflicting counsels: "When he cried, 'Steer to starbord, but keep her head to larbord,' What on earth was the helmsman...
...savage fight march in perfect order to an artistically vague ending. A fit companion to "Pete La Farge" is "The Morrigan." Mr. Schenck piles on lurid horrors with the ungrudging hand of love. Beside his sketch, Mr. Proctor's clever "Page from Gorky" seems pale and ineffective. After the reader has shuddered at "the great black raven" flapping slowly across the sky in Mr. Schenck's closing paragraph, he should take W. C. G. 's mild moralizing upon "The Dilletante" as an antidote...