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...without stint to all who were capable of appreciating them. His sparkling wit was ever ready to illuminate dark corners in even the abstrusest departments of learning, and he could make the dryest subject interesting by his skilful and original way of present-it. To his originality many scholars widely scattered through the land can bear testimony, recalling that it was he who first showed them that there were things to be learned which were not set down in any book,- that he initiated them, in fact, into modern methods of individual research and taught them to seek the truth...
Though he published little (very little for a man of such wide and varied learning) under his own name, he always put his best scholarship at the disposal of his friends. One of the best instances is the work which he gave to the revision of Lewis's (known as Harper's) Latin Lexicon, which, according to the editors preface, bears throughout the marks of his skill and critical scholarship. One of his smallest works, the pamphlet on Latin Proununciation, has indeed worked a revolution which even the learning of a Munro could never even begin in England...
...cage will be large enough to permit of throw from home plate to second and to give practice in base running. It will be 150 feet long by 60 wide and 30 hight in the centre. The frame will be entirely of steel filled in with bricks to a distance of five feet above the ground, the remainder being plastered on the outside and sheathed within. Netting will be hung at a distance of eighteen inches from the wall on the inside. In winter the cage will not only accommodate the baseball candidates but will also serve for the cricket...
...graduates ten handball courts are to be put up this week on the asphalt court behind the gymnasium. The fence at each end of the asphalt court is to be replaced by a wooden wall twelve feet high and one foot thick. Five handball courts, each fifteen feet wide, are then to be walled off along the ends. Two of these courts will be used by the baseball pichers, but the rest will be free to any one who may wish to play in them. The present overcrowded state of the indoor courts and the fact that these new courts...
...them in and out. There will be a covered piazza behind the main building, equal in width to the distance the ell will extend beyond it. The front piazza will be extended in front of the ell in its new position and there will be a piazza ten feet wide between the ell and the main building. The necessary piles are almost all down and the gravel which is being dredged out of the bed of the river above the Boylston street bridge is being used to fill in with. The city of Cambridge which owns the house is doing...