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...erect at the finish of the hundred - yard course a stand made up entirely of private boxes for pleasure parties. Arrangements have been completed for quick transportation to and from the Oval on the days of the games. The grounds are only fifteen minutes' distant from the Grand Central Station, and only seven minutes from the terminal station of the elevated road at One Hundred and Fifty-fifth street. After 1 p. m., trains will be run every ten minutes. The contests will be so accelerated this year that the last event will be decided long before dark...
Ninety students of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, working in shifts of thirty each, helped to test the new 21,000,000-gallon pump at the Chestnut Hill pumping station Wednesday. The first crew went on at eight o'clock in the morning and stayed until five in the afternoon; then they were relieved by a crew which stayed until after midnight, when the last shift went on until morning. Most of them were stationed in the engine room, where every part of the engine and boilers was thoroughly tested. Readings were taken from all the gauges every fifteen minutes...
...Moon, where dwell the souls of those whose wills though set upon virtue, were unstable in character. From the Moon Beatrice lifts Dante with a look to the second heaven of Mercury, where rest the souls of those who have pursued honor and glory on earth. Their low station in heaven is owing to their excessive desire for honor while in the world of the living. The third sphere is that of the planet Venus, the last to which the shadow of the earth reaches. Here are the souls of those whose perfect virtue has been injured by the mingling...
Thus the students are enabled to remain at the laboratory of the station all the year around, and zoological research is consequently greatly facilitated. Here, also, the results of investigations are published...
...principal American zoological station is situated at Woods Holl, and is controlled by the Fish Commission. It is probably the best equipped station in the world. The attempt has been made by the American universities to join forces with the Fish Commission in order to have an opportunity to enjoy the superior advantages of the government station and equipment, but without success. Until this is accomplished, the facilities for zoological study in America will never be equal to those offered in Europe...