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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Benjamin Franklin looked at the skies a hundred years ago to discover the nature of electricity, and we are doing the same thing now. What Franklin failed to see was that the discharge of electricity is not in one direction, but oscillatory. Josepe Henry noticed in 1835 that a Leyden...
At 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...
A number of editorials are devoted to the result of the mass-meeting of the 20th of last month. Considering the rotten condition of college athletics the action of Harvard in withdrawing from the Intercollegiate Foot Ball association was not untimely, and if her motives are pure, she deserves great...
The last two editorials touch the Springfield game and the freshman game. Harvard, although not victorious at Springfield, has had an excellent eleven; the men have all worked hard and faithfully, and deserve the gratitude of the college. The freshman elevens have of late years defeated Yale, and this fact...
"Jim Watson of Dean's" a tale of a Jersey town, and "Literary Sham" an excellent article on the semi literary and non-literary elements at college close the number.