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...will look this way, I will show you some of its fine points. In the first place, by touching a hidden spring, the cover over the face flies back and discloses the hours all beautifully engraved on a white background. Here, again, you see the hands, three in number and of different sizes. In the three hands you must recognize an especial advantage, for even if two hands get broken you still have one left to show the time; also you cannot fail to see the wisdom of having hands of different sizes, for, to a near-sighted person...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A SUMMER INCIDENT. | 10/15/1880 | See Source »

...been raised to three dollars, since it will obviate the disagreeable necessity of assessing the old members every year. As yet nothing definite has been arranged about a meeting with Yale, but the Association is doing all that lies in its power to have the meeting take place next spring on Jarvis Field. We wish the Association every success in the arrangement of this meeting, and assure it of the cordial co-operation of all the students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/15/1880 | See Source »

...probable that, before the end of the present academic year, a Greek play will be performed in Sanders Theatre, and that too, with more attention to details than was given to the performance of the Agamemnon at Oxford this spring. The Oedipus Tyrannus has been selected; some of the parts have already been assigned, and Prof. Paine is said to have finished the score for the music of the first chorus. The choruses will all be sung, and perhaps the dance which accompanied the singing will be attempted also. The seats will be taken from the floor of Sanders Theatre...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/15/1880 | See Source »

...WINNERS IN THE ATHLETIC MEETING LAST SPRING...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPORTING COLUMN. | 10/15/1880 | See Source »

...following list of corrections will have to suffice. To begin with the Table of American College records, we have discovered that Mr. Dick's 1-4 mile record of 53 seconds was not made in College Sports, but in the Keystone Athletic Club Sports in Philadelphia, in the spring of 1877, so that the record cannot stand in the College Table. The best College record for the 1-4 mile, then, falls to E. J. Wendell, of Harvard, with a record of 53 1-2 seconds. Also, the half-mile record credited to Mr. Trumbull of Yale should instead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPORTING COLUMN. | 6/18/1880 | See Source »