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...would be understandable if the authorities denied the student's appeal on the ground that a course in that subject is unnecessary. If an age of Freudian novels and the Enlightenment of Youth, when "he facts of life" are taught, at the Mayor's request, to children in the New York public schools, it might not be supposed that anyone would care to elect the subject in college. Medieval documents, recently investigated by a University professor, have disclosed the knowledge that love was a disease well understood even by our ancestors of eight centuries ago, a fact which would seem...
Colonel A. T. Marix, Minister of Justice, Education, and Foreign Relations, has made his report on the American administration of Santo Domingo, and everybody is happy. At the request of France, England, and Germany, he says, the Americans took over the management of the island, for the sake. I suppose, of the Proteus excogitated by Monroe in 1823. Why the Monroe Doctrine was not called forth from the summit of the Olympus when the British occupied the Falkland Islands in 1832, or when a Spanish fleet bombarded Cuzeo and blockaded that and other Chilean ports in 1866, or, what...
...Christine Ladd-Franklin renowned mathematician and student of the theories of color-vision, will lecture on the subject of "Color-Sensation," this afternoon at 4 o'clock in Emerson A, at the request of the audience which heard her first talk on the same subject last Tuesday. 'Mrs. Franklin, a graduate of Johns Hopkins University, is a lecturer at Columbia University. Her research in the science of color-vision has been probably the deepest and most thoroughgoing ever made. The lecture this afternoon will be illustrated by lantern slides
...fundamental importance to astronomers. The Draper Catalogue, containing as it does vast numbers of these spectra, is constantly used for reference in observatories. It consists of nine volumes. Seven of these have been published to date, and meanwhile the Observatory furnishes yearly to the astronomers of all countries upon request hundreds of spectra contained in the unpublished volumes...
...first letter printed below was written in reply to Mr. Bruce's request for a room in the Freshman Dormitories to be used...