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...Mohammedan University nine hundred years older than Oxford, is still flourishing at Cairo, as in the days of Arabian conquests. It contains but one room, the floor is paved, and the roof is supported by four hundred columns. Ten thousand students are said to have been educated there to preach the Moslem faith...
...other commentators? So Mr. Adams would have us spell 'Shakespeare' in any way we choose? It is a question if Mr. Adams would care to have his name spelled in more than one way. There is a gentleman in Philadelphia who has amused himself by making out two thousand ways of spelling Shakespeare's name. Would it not be advisable for the "Shakespeare" Club to buy this little book select the most curious spelling and adopt it as their way of spelling the name, for have they not the sanction of Mr. Davenport Adams? I am quite certain they would...
...still another president, and there is no knowing how many more of these figureheads or financial agents may be required before the end of the year. The truth is that there is no better place for killing first class men than to make them presidents of one of the thousand small and struggling, and often not needed colleges that are scattered all over the century. Their Presidents are made responsible for great things, and are expected to create splendid results out of nothing. Dr. Duryea narrowly escaped this indiscribable position at Union College, and it is just this ??? of being...
...inch, relatively to the focal length of a simple lens which will produce the same magnification. Thus taking the focal length of the eye as ten inches, a one inch objective magnifies ten diameters, a 1-50 inch objective, five hundred diameters; a 1-100 objective, one thousand diameters; (the highest powers made). When the ocular system is added, the magnification is equal to the product of the magnifying powers of the objective times the ocular. For instance, a two inch vocular and a 1-5 objective magnify two hundred and fifty diameters. As oculars are made...
...coach, yesterday had an altercation with a negro employe in Philadelphia, and was struck by the latter in the forehead with a hatchet. Mr. Cook was removed to the hospital where his skull was found to be badly fractured; the doctors say he has not one chance in a thousand to live...