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...stars. There is reasonable belief that this method will enable such calculations to be made with a degree of accuracy hitherto unobtainable. The spectra of many obscure stars have been carefully studied, and in some cases, peculiar spectrum lines have been noticed which point to the presence of some unknown elements...
This match is for the Intercollegiate Cup offered by "Shooting and Fishing." The conditions are as follows: First, each team is composed of five men; second, each man shoots at thirty birds, sixteen yards rise, thrown from three unknown traps five yards apart; third, ten gauge guns are penalized two yards; fourth, broken pigeons, or pigeons not properly thrown, are no birds; fifth, a misfire does not count, but, if the wrong trigger is pulled, or if the safety is not pushed up, the bird is lost. The match will begin at ten o'clock...
...shoot yesterday afternoon showed a decided improvement in the form of the men. Unknown angles were used entirely. Stover, a new man of considerable experience, and Bancroft, of last year's team, tied for first place in the match for the Founder's Cup, each killing twelve birds. Kinnicut and Byrd tied for second place with eleven each...
Other entertaining stories are "For Unknown Reasons," by A. S. Pier '95; "On the Way to Sweet Auburn," by Townsend Walsh '95; "The Sleeping Car," Willis Munro '95; "The Restoration of the Pipes," H. H. Chamberlin '95; "Little Sister," Louis How '95; "God, Man and the Devil," L. W. Mott '96; "On a Paris Omnibus," J. A. Gade '96, "The Law Breaker," by Phillip Richards '96, and "The Wrong Scent," A. C. Train '96. Perhaps no collection of stories has ever been published that so truly represents different phases and characteristics of college life, particularly of Harvard life. The book...
...show-world; it is enveloped in a larger world of some sort, about which we mortals can frame no positive idea. As Kant pointed out, of this unknowable world we are morally bound to postulate a Divine Moral Order. Because it is our duty to treat the unknown world as if it were divine and moral, we practically know for certain that it is divine and moral. The inner need of believing that the world of nature is a sign of something more spiritual and eternal than itself is just as strong and authoritative in those who feel...