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...large number of theories have been advanced as to the reason of these remarkable sunsets. The exact cause will probably never be known, but it is interesting to hear the various ways in which the phenomenon is explained. Electricity is one theory for no apparent reason, except that it seems to be the custom of the present age when anything in nature is entirely unaccountable to attribute it to electricity. Another startling theory is that our planet is passing through the tail of a comet, but this does not seem to be plausible as no nucleus...
...decree of 1870 had been proceeded in 1869 by a note, addressed by the Minister of Public Instruction to the Faculties of the various Universities in Prussia, asking their opinion upon the question whether young men who had received their preparatory training in a Realschule should be admitted to the Universities, and, if they were admitted, under what restrictions this should be done. The answers, taken as a whole, were distinctly opposed to the Minister's implied proposal. The decree was nevertheless issued and went into immediate effect...
...conference between a faculty committee of six and invited students to the number of twenty-four on the subject of college athletics, Friday afternoon, resulted in an interesting and suggestive discussion of the question in its various aspects as suggested by the recent course of the faculty and the faculty committee on athletics and by President Eliot's recent report. The total attendance numbered about twenty-three; the list of students invited was as follows: From '84, T. J. Coolidge, Fenn, Goodwin, LeMoyne, Lovering and Nash. '85, Atkinson, Baldwin, Carpenter, Goodale, Storrow and J. E. Thayer. '86, Adams, Barnes, Cary...
...prominent strangers visiting or travelling in this part of the state; but these are about all. It is seldom that we hear any authoritative statements on the practical questions of so much interest to a large class of students. Much is taught about some of these subjects in the various courses but this instruction is necessarily confined...
...attention has been called to the fact that a lot of bogus summons, purporting to come from the Dean, were sent out to various members of the different classes. Just why any persons of intelligence sufficient to entitle them to a place in the college should wish to indulge in such a practical joke it is really hard to understand. Certainly, as far as the joke was concerned, nothing could be sillier; and the only amusement of the inventor or inventors of this piece of mischief must have sprung from the knowledge that they...