Word: worlds
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Professor John T. Trowbridge has in the last two years placed the study of electricity at Harvard in advance of any other college, by means of a powerful apparatus set up in the Jefferson Physical Laboratory. This battery, then the strongest in the world, was able to produce sparks in air three feet long...
...story we have all read before either in the Advocate or in some other college magazine. It seems rather a waste of good material that so many men should try their hands at this same old theme. The same criticism may be applied to "The Way of the World," which moreover, savors a good deal of "Harvard Episodes." For the rest of the fiction the "Reminiscences of the P. O.," in an interesting account of some freshmen oarsmen at Poughkeepsie, and "Their Class Dinner" is a slight sketch of three men who held an unsuccessful rival class dinner by themselves...
...world looks on today to see whether education means indifference or patriotism. Men of Harvard, how shall we answer this question...
...practice on Wednesday, J. P. Remington of the University of Pennsylvania, made a new world's record in the broad jump, clearing 23 ft. 10 in. The previous record was 23 ft. 6 1-2 in. Remington will jump in competition tomorrow at Philadelphia, when it is expected he will do even better than in practice...
PARK; Boston's Comedy Theatre.- Eugene Tompkins, Lessee and Manager. Bob Fitzsimmons Champion of the World, and Great Vaudeville Co. Popular prices. Matinees Wednesday and Saturday...