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A Marking Machine! Since Edison's great discoveries and inventions we have been prepared for something still more marvellous, but did the most imaginative ever dream of such a machine? Last winter the Advocate suggested plank walks for the Yard, - an original, a grand idea, - but surely the same head...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A MARKING MACHINE. | 1/24/1879 | See Source »

ENCOURAGED by the success of his first attempt, "Harvard and its Surroundings," Mr. King has extended the field of his operations to the neighboring metropolis, and has produced a handbook of Boston. It is, indeed, profusely illustrated, as the title-page states, and the illustrations are of a very heterogeneous...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOK REVIEW. | 1/10/1879 | See Source »

In many respects this handbook is very much like other handbooks, but it has one original feature, - the headings of the chapters. Mr. King conceived the idea of comparing the different classes of public works, institutions, etc., to the different parts of the human body. He starts off swimmingly with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOK REVIEW. | 1/10/1879 | See Source »

THE Courant is non-committal on the subject of an American Henley, but suggests that there be a single race for class crews. There is another boating letter from "A Yale Graduate," from which we clip the following: "Our sister university is undoubtedly cock of the walk as regards rowing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 12/19/1878 | See Source »

"Pretty soon I shall do something rash."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PEGASUS IN A SICK-ROOM. | 12/19/1878 | See Source »