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...statement made in the October Miscellany to the effect that Mr. John Guy Vassar gav $25,000 to Vassar College during the summer is a mistake. The money was presented to the Vassar Institute. [Vassar Miscellany...
...late Boston paper calls attention to the fact that sixty-seven members of the West Point class entering last June were unable to swim. "Instruction in this indispensable art was given during the summer, and, as a result, all of the class, with two exceptions, could swim, and most of them were able to venture across the Hudson river." The strange part of the whole affair, in the opinion of our contemporary, is that so large a proportion of a class were entirely incapable of supporting themselves in the water. We do not think it strange at all. This "peculiarity...
...motion, when compared with the cuts taken by Mr. Muybridge served to show the erroneous impressions held by even the most observing of the ancient and in fact modern artists. It is the intention of Mr. Muybridge to accept the offer of the University of Pennsylvania to spend the summer in making investigations and so far perfecting his system of photography as to be able to show even the action of the muscles, thereby rendering the invention of more practical utility for the purposes of artists and sculptors. The Zoopraxiscohe is a machine invented by Mr. Muybridge, and which consists...
Matthews, pitcher for the Athletics last summer, will train the Brown nine this year...
...lacrosse convention held Saturday evening in New York, the question of an American team to go to Europe next summer was brought up, and it was agreed to meet again early in December when the agent now in Europe making arrangements, would be present. Five hundred dollars has been guaranteed for the expenses of the team, which will be selected from all the clubs in the eastern, middle and southern States...