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...sing part of Handel's "Messiah." Soon after ten o'clock, a short interval is allowed for supper, during which the little candles on the vast Christmas tree are lighted; and then, the gas being turned down, the choir commence singing Christmas carols, until the great bell in the tower booms out the hour of twelve, when Pergolesi's "Gloria in Excelsis" is sung, and the Vice-President bids you a Merry Christmas. The whole scene is striking and unique, and well worthy of its academic surroundings. Queen's College, even more than Magdalen, confers benefit on the public...
...electrical paper reports a new device for aiding base ball umpires in their arduous duties, An underground wire forms a circuit with all the bases. When the base runner touches the plate, an electric bell rings in a small tower near the umpire's position. It is to be hoped that this device will be fully tested this season, and, if found useful, adopted all over the country. It will be a grand thing if, in course of time, an umpire can have all his duties performed by electricity; and if the inventor of this noble plan could only find...
...where the moose and the bear were wandering while Shakespeare was writing Hamlet, where a few plain dormitories and other needed buildings were scattered about in my school-boy days, groans under the weight of the massive edifices which have s rung up all around them, crowned by the tower of that noble structure which stands in full view before me as I lift my eyes from the portfolio on the back of which I am now writing.-Oliver Wendell Holmes in the Atlantic...
...Cambridge is here provided by civil authority for the benefit of the Tufts men. As we walk about the reservoir, let us take in the view. Look down into the valley of the Mystic, look beyond toward the Middlesex Fells, look back to old Cambridge and see the lofty tower of Memorial Hall looming above everything else. When it is once seen, we feel at home. What a grand old landmark it is! There are few places in the neighborhood of Cambridge from which it is not visible. Now let us enter the grounds of the famous Tufts, a college...
...street, and surrounded by very spacious grounds, which contain a fine grove of tall trees, and are themselves surrounded by an almost inhospitably tall fence. Next we come to Mt. Auburn cemetery, which is of course interesting, so to speak, exofficio, and also because it contains a moderately high tower, which is itself considerably elevated. From this we may get a very good and quite an extensive view of the surrounding country. Beyond the cemetery we have a choice of two pleasures, of which it may be said that "either is preferable," If we go straight ahead we soon pass...