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Prof. Whiting gave a lecture on liberal education yesterday in Physics C. He stated among other things that some of the mountains in pictures in the Washington Gallery are 1500 miles high by the laws of perspective; those in London...
...following firm is to be added to the list of affiliated tradesmen: Benj. French & Co., 319 Washington St., Boston, dealers in photographic apparatus and materials. The discount is 10 per cent., except on Cramer, Eastman, and St. Louis dry plates, on which the discount is 5 per cent. All kinds of apparatus and material...
...character was the special topic. After touching upon the characteristics of the mixed population that settled California, the lecturer proceeded to give an account of the first forcible measures by which our government gained a foothold in the state. It is thought that Captain Fremont received secret instructions from Washington to incite the American settlers against the Mexicans. As a result of these underhanded negotiations there was an uprising of the settlers which became known as the Bean Flag affair. The leaders in the movement were Dr. Semple and William Ide, two original products of this rude civilization. A battle...
...help them. "To you, students of Harvard University, because I shall never see you again, I shall speak these words of hope, encouragement, inspiration. Can you sacrifice pleasure and success to duty. Have you faith? If you have it, however small, you can move mountains. By faith Columbus, Washington, Channing, Garrison, Lincoln, lived their great and useful lives. America needs a new enthusiasm and calls on you, the trustees of her prosperity for it. Cleanse her politics, elevate society, defy the arrogance of public opinion. Will you leave the world better for living in it? Or will...
...some matters the students are not so well off as the Harvard students, Although there is the Congressional Library in Washington, which is about an hour's ride on the railroad from Baltimore, yet the students do not have the advantage of immediate reference to such an extensive library as we have here. In one of the college buildings is a very well arranged library of about 26,000 volumes. There is a gymnasium on the opposite side of the street...