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...some changes in the relative positions have taken place, but they are not many, and the list stands substantially correct to day as regards position. The growth of all American libraries has, however, been rapid during the last few years and large numbers of books have been added to almost all the collegiate libraries. Take our own for an example and it shows the following rapid progress. In 1876 the Harvard library contained 227,650 volumes, in 1881 these figures had increased to 259,000, and in the present catalogue the number of volumes...
...steam used in cooking. The boilers are high, but the engine is small, it being used principally to run the laundry which is connected with the kitchen. Here we can get some idea of the scale upon which our Dining Association is conducted. In this laundry, which is used almost exclusively for washing the soiled table linen, are employed four or five women, who have nothing to do except to attend to these duties. Here, too, are the latest improvements in machinery, which saves a vast amount of labor. You can get some idea of the rapidity of work, when...
Saturday evening's edition of the Transcript contained a very vigorous, forcible and almost violent communication, protesting against the abolishment of foot ball. The writer says at the close: "Probably the next step will be to have the inter-collegiate boat-races conducted with steam launches, because "brutal" strength is needed at the oar. Is it a pleasant prospect that not game should be allowed except those that girls can have part in, and will it improve our race. "The puny weaklings who would be exterminated in a natural state of society will taken the a affirmative...
...future, because the changes made last year did not accomplish all that was hoped for, -this argument, I say, is childish and worthless. For, in the first place, the students now are much better able to judge what changes are needed, and, secondly, changes which last year were almost universally opposed by the students, would this year meet with almost unanimous approval. Let it be remembered, however, that the reason of this opposition last year was not so much because we were unwilling to see changes made in the rules, as because we were unwilling to submit to what seemed...
...carried my camera with me to almost all the many places I visited this summer, and took about one hundred and fifty photographs altogether. At Newport I took an instantaneous photograph of a tennis game. I tried to include the server who delivered the ball with great speed by rather a peculiar motion. I set up my tripod in the midst of the usual crowd of admiring spectators, and pointed it with great care so as to include, as I thought, my "subject." But as is often the case, a little care is worse than none. I had arranged everything...