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...great an interest is taken, at the present time, in the various N. H. courses, and as several of these courses have a more or less elaborate system of laboratory work with the microscope, it was thought that a brief sketch of the instrument and its possibilities would be acceptable...
...health of women graduates. This was begun by sending a series of printed questions to 1,300 college-bred women. The 705 answers received were tabulated by the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labor and results have been recently published and distributed in pamphlet form. Essays and papers on various subjects have been written for the association by prominent women, and in many fields great activity and usefulness has been displayed. Connected with the association are clubs, for the study of political science, and of sanitary science. Under a direction of a committee of specialists, several members are engaged...
...formed by a looped wire terminating in an indicative point, upon which rests a heavy weight, the whole being suspended from a firm support. This, however, has not the advantage of such great delicacy as the mercury cup and is used in the more transient stations of the various surveys...
...From April to July, and from September to December, thousands of college men meet, in friendly rivalry, on lake and river, on base-ball and football fields, and in the various sports of field-day. Anxious parents and learned faculties look on, the while, half joyfully, half sorrowfully; now with the wild enthusiasm, shouting 'well done, boys, for Alma Mater,' now anxiously scanning the nut-brown players, if may be to discover some lurking bodily ill, some bookish imperfection which the annual newspaper squib alleges must be the sad ending of all such folly. Fortunately for the general welfare, however...
...high scoring, and, despite the absence of some of the club's best shots, the records show that good shooting was no rarity. The opening of the new series of matches called out a fairly large field of entries, and the score sheets showed close competition in the various events...