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...committee which offered a prize for the best distinctive Princeton song, has announced that none of those sent in are of sufficient merit to warrant an awarding of a prize. The prize therefore is again open to competition till March...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 12/21/1885 | See Source »

...Prytanis (president), an Ephor or Dean, and a Syncletus or Senate, composed of five professors from each school. Each school is governed by its faculty, and annually elects five of its number to represent it in the senate. The professors are almost all Greeks, who have been sent to Germany, France and England for their advanced education. The departments of Philology and Law are particularly rich in able and learned instructors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The University of Athens. | 12/21/1885 | See Source »

...recent visit to the workshop of the famous lens makers, Alvin Clark & Sons, Cambridgeport, furnishes some interesting facts concerning the objective for the great telescope of the Lick Observatory in California. It being impossible to get the glasses cast satisfactorily in this country, the Clarks sent to Paris after them soon after receiving the order from the trustees of the Observatory. Considerable time was spent before the first glass, the flint, was successfully cast, and this did not reach Mr. Clark until about three years ago. A very much longer delay accompanied the casting of the crown glass, which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Big Glass. | 12/19/1885 | See Source »

Getchell, Yale, '87, discovered last summer a remarkable, and what he believed to be a new species of alga. He accordingly sent it to Prof. Farlow, who unhesitatingly pronounced it a new species, and a very important discovery...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 12/18/1885 | See Source »

Unfortunately this was crowded out of yesterday's issue. The following petition, printed on postal cards, has been decided upon by the committee, and will be sent to every undergraduate in the academic department, after the holidays...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prayer Petition. | 12/18/1885 | See Source »