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...summer, the tennis courts on Jarvis field have been moved farther away from the fence, and one new one has been laid out. New and tighter backstops have been put up and ten feet have been left in each case between the back line of the court and the wire netting. Five of the courts on Homes field have been practically new made, and everything about them has been put into first-class condition...
...speaker said in substance: Although we can only conjecture what electricity is we are practically interested in what it does. The principle of the dynamo is that a continuous wire revolving under the influence of a magnet has electrical currents induced in it, and this induced current is sent out to do work...
...cage to be erected by the University of Pennsylvania will be of corrugated iron on a wooded frame, 100 feet wide by 200 long. with fifteen large wire-covered windows. A coating of white paint has been put on the interior to facilitate battery practice, while a well-made track, bath and dressing rooms will make indoor training a possibility. The cost will be $6,500 enough of which has already been subscribed to warrant immediate building...
...this point Professor Trowbridge performed some interesting experiments, and showed some equally interesting photographs to prove the existence of waves of electricity and their oscillatory motion. He then made a most significant experiment in induction, and explained how a man killed by an electric wire was in reality struck by lightning. A dozen lectures would be necessary to explain all the aspects of those phenomena, and only a short description of them was attempted in last night's lecture...
What induced the authorities to wire up the first gate to the Memorial yard we cannot see. The gate as it is today is decidedly unsightly, while the dangling wire seems to serve no useful purpose. The matter, small though it is, should be attended to at once...