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...Union Club, Boston, Cottle of Yale, Balch of New York, Hodge, a graduate of Princeton, and Gerndt, a graduate of New York University. The whole team will consist of fourteen men, two being substitutes. The matches which have been arranged are as follows: May 17, Saturday, on the Rock Ferry grounds at Liverpool, the Cheshire County Lacrosse Association; Wednesday, May 21, at Manchester, on the Longsight cricket grounds, the Lancashire County Lacrosse Association; Saturday, May 24, same place, the North of England Lacrosse Association; Monday, May 26, or Wednesday, May 28, on the Bramhall Lane cricket grounds, Sheffield, the Yorkshire...
About twenty years ago petrography or lithology, the study of the structure of rocks, was added to our list of sciences. Harvard, almost alone among American colleges, has paid attention to this science. As if by magic, one versed in this wonderful science can look through solid rock and tell what lies hidden far within. The tool of the petrographist is a polarizing microscope, that is, an ordinary compound microscope in which two Nicol's prisms of Iceland spar are placed at a certain distance apart...
...placing a shaving of a rock, ground so as to be translucent, between the prisms, one can tell the composition of the rock, by examining the colors of the component parts of the shaving in polarized light...
...this new science we are enabled to ascertain the origin of a rock, the changes its component parts have undergone, and in short its complete history. It gives us information regarding decay in building stone, and points out the injurious matter therein. The minerals in a rock are shown, no matter how minute they may be. The history of meteorites, up to this time unknown, is revealed by this science...
...convention of the colleges interested in the "Child's Cup" race at Philadelphia decided to admit Cornell in the place of Columbia and to change the course to the Flat Rock dam course twelve miles up the Schuylkill from Philadelphia. This will reduce the handicap which the Pennsylvania crew has hitherto held over other competitors...