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...rules adopted by the Faculty last spring, in accordance with the famous vote of the overseers of January 30, 1889, have now had almost a year's trial. It is difficult to trace their effect except in a general way, and part of the changes they have produced may be only temporary; but it is interesting to notice some of the results. It will be remembered that the overseers first voted that in their opinion it was "expedient that every undergraduate be required to report in person early every morning;" that the Faculty, unwilling to establish a roll-call, adopted...
...finally determinatives, expressing genera and species, were introduced, which eliminated much of the former obscurity. The next stage of development was the representation by signs of syllables, instead of whole words or ideas. The final step, the employing of signs to represent single letters is no harder to trace than the preceding transitions. The Egyptians had the first real alphabet, real in the sense of having a sign for each letter. Babylonian and even Arabic have signs for only three of their vowel sounds. The Phoenician people in their commercial relations and in their position as intermediaries between the great...
...have not contented ourselves with an investigation of the charges presented by the officers of the Princeton Association, but have carried our inquiries further. We can discover no trace of the payment, or offer, of money to any person to play upon the Harvard teams this year. Employment has in a case or two been secured for men of moderate means by those interested in them. And there was in 1888-89 the instance, referred to above, in which an athletic man, not then a member of any team, borrowed a sum of money for college expenses from a fellow...
...connection with the worship of Asklepios, and the cures recorded on the style at Epidauros formed the basis of the system of medicine of the first physicians. But the evidence we have does not at all bear out this supposition, for the records on the style show absolutely no trace of medical practice. The cures were simple miracles. The whole matter is very well illustrated by the present annual pilgrimages of sick people to the island of Tenos, to be healed at the shrine of the Madonna. A plan of Epidauros and a number of bas-reliefs were shown...
...followed about seven minutes later and had no difficulty in finding the scent until the swamps were reached. Here they got separated but most of the pack with the master followed the scent to Mt. Auburn bridge where the break was made because it was too dark to trace the scent further. Meanwhile the hares had returned having made the distance in fifty-seven minutes. Lowell '92 was the first hound in from the break, twenty-three minutes after the hares, closely followed by A. H. Williams '91, and F. P. Sears '91. The next run occurs Wednesday, October...