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...study for several years. The point of view which his lectures, whose titles appear in the college calendar to-day, will take is a novel one, and of such a nature as to appeal to the layman as well as to the scholar. We trust that the college will show its appreciation of the favor conferred on it by the Classical Club by making use of these opportunities to hear some very valuable and attractive lectures...
...insufficient to sustain the weight. There ought to be enough class pride or class shame to induce some men to come forward as competitors for positions on the CRIMSON. It is not such a terrible "grind" as it looks. We shall always welcome contributions and encourage those men who show themselves proficient enough to become editors. Let us hear from you, nipety...
...like water that turns the wheel of one mill and then flows on with undiminished vigor to the next; but like coal, which is consumed and lost in begetting steam. It is as true to-day as ever that man cannot serve two masters. What names can our civilization show among philosophers, poets and writers whose fame will outlive this century to warm the hearts and fire the imaginations of coming generations? There is less zeal for the true intellectual life to-day than there was a hundred years...
...statistics in the Globe show an increase of forty per cent, at Yale in the last seven years as compared with an increase of twenty-one per cent, at Harvard. During the same period, out of the thirty-one contests between Yale and Harvard in base-ball, foot-ball, rowing and track athletics, Yale has won twenty-one times, Harvard ten. While these facts may show nothing more than a coincidence, it seems to us to be a more reasonable conclusion to draw from these facts that Yale's victories have been one of the things, at least, that have...
...Wendell, while Mr. W. H. Pickering directed the general photographic work. Professor Pickering had twelve persons assisting in one way or another during the three or four busy hours. The photographic plates obtained were not all developed at once, but a sufficiency of each set to show that the apparatus was in good order. The time signal of the observatory was critically compared on Saturday, and was found to be correct, within one-tenth of a second...