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...three weeks in June each year all students of two or more years' standing were required to attend in the "Hall," from nine to eleven and from one to three on Mondays and Tuesdays for their annual examinations. Visitors might at this time test their proficiency in the various studies, and as it was customary for some of the overseers to visit the school whilst the students were thus doing "what were called sitting of solstices," these weeks were called the "weeks of visitation." Those who failed to pass the examinations were "deferred to the following year." The degree...
Last Monday the Boston aldermen gave the West End Street Railway Company a hearing concerning the cable system that they propose to introduce in Boston and vicinity. Many strong arguments were presented in favor of the system, and but little opposition encountered. The various advantages of the cable over the electric and elevated systems were shown. The cable system can be operated at all seasons of the year, while the electric will not work in winter; the elevated system, by darkening the streets and stores in addition to making it disagreeable for second story dwellers, decreased the value of real...
...large laboratory. Directly below this laboratory in the basement and above on the second floor are two other laboratories corresponding to the first in size and shape. The second floor will also contain smaller lecture rooms and rooms belonging to Prof. Gooch and assistants. Ventilating shafts connect the various rooms with the roof and all vapors will find an easy exit. The building will be heated by steam from the college heating apparatus, but the steam pipes will not be arranged as radiators but will encircle the walls of each room. A large room in the tower...
...various positions in the out-field, Linn, '90; Codman, 90; McKean, '90, and Bailey, '88, are the main candidates. Linn was a member of last year's nine and filled his position very acceptably. His batting, however, is weak. All the other men, no one of whom is immeasurably superior to the others, are members of their respective class nines...
...lecture given by Dr. Sachs last night in Upper Boylston was upon the relation of the vases to the "Cypria," one of the lost epics which supplemented the Homeric poems. We know this poem through quotations which we find in various authors, and by its influence on Greek art and literature. In this epic we find the determination of Zeus to relieve the earth of its surplus population by a destructive war given as the cause of the Trojan war. In furtherance of this plan, Thetis was given in marriage to Peelers, that their son Achilles might be the bulwark...