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...component parts have undergone, and in short its complete history. It gives us information regarding decay in building stone, and points out the injurious matter therein. The minerals in a rock are shown, no matter how minute they may be. The history of meteorites, up to this time unknown, is revealed by this science...
Nothing is of greater interest to everyone in college than the result of the "semis." That this is unknown to many of the faculty is evident from the fact that the returns of the examinations in some courses are not made for a month or even six weeks. It certainly would seem that the books in those courses which number less than fifty men might all be corrected within two weeks after the examinations...
...points on which most Western scholars are ignorant. But he was, on the other hand, little acquainted with modern German scholarship; and the works of the great masters of classic philology in Germany, except so far as they were written in Latin or translated into English, were almost unknown to him, as he never learned German so as to read it with any facility. But much which others learned with toil seemed to come to him by intuition, and many things in his books which might appear to be borrowed from others are really original with...
...standard for admission at Princeton has been raised by the addition of a chapter in Hart's Rhetoric, four books of the Anabasis instead of three, the second book of Euclid, and the Quadratics of two unknown quantities...
...slaying have been developed since then, we have got to be much more humane with regard to our foot-ball, and a had hack now is an exceptional circumstance. The game in fact-whether Rugby or Association-has undergone a complete metamorphosis. "Passing" the ball was a practice utterly unknown ; the art of "packing" a scrimmage was in its infancy ; the laws of "off-side" were crude and unsatisfactory. So also with the Association game, "middling," "corner kicks," "head play" were not known ; the men played where they liked, and there was little or none of that organization...