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...shoots for the Parker gun. The four shoots, which were necessary to compete the series, could not be held without running into the period of the final examinations. The club has had an altogether successful year. The club-house has been fitted up, a platform and a new screen have been built, and the team was sent to Princeton. The club has undergone all these expenses without running into debt. Next year the intercollegiate shoot will be held at the groups of the Boston Shooting Association at Wellington...
...stand is now being built on Soldiers Field for the Shooting Club. There will be three traps this year instead of one as formerly, and the pulls will be worked from the house instead of from behind a screen. The system of firing will be rapid this season and the price of birds will be reduced from 2.5 cents to 1.5 cents. It is hoped that everything will be ready for a shoot at the end of the week and when the season opens there will be two shoots a week until the every day practice just before the match...
...five Assyrian Readings in the Fogg Museum yesterday afternoon on Assyrian Prayers. After the reading proper, he made an appeal for the erection of a building for the Department of Semetic Languages and History. Plans for the proposed building drawn by R. C. Sturgis, Boston, were shown upon the screen. The Department has been promised $25,000 provided it can obtain $25,000 more. Professor Lyon said that at least $100,000 would be necessary to provide such a building...
...photograph of the shade. As glass absorbs the rays a lens would be of no use and would prevent the taking of a photograph. Thus the common process of photographing is exactly reversed with the cathode rays. This was illustrated by a picture thrown on the screen where a camera was shown with the larger end towards the cathode and the lens pointed away uselessly...
...this point Professor Trowbridge had several pictures thrown on the screen. The first was of several coins which had been in his pocket-book which had been put in a wooden box that had been surrounded by a pasteboard box. The next picture was of a turkey's wing which showed the bones and a bullet which had been shot into it. The third picture was again of a turkey's wing with three shots in it, and a ring taken by a to and fro current which is the professor's way of finding out the distance...