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Judge Lowell began practice in Boston, associated with William Sohier. In 1865 he was made judge of the District Court of the United States by President Lincoln, and in 1878 he was appointed justice of the circuit court. In 1884 he returned te general practice and became the leading authority in the United States on all questions of bankruptcy and insolvency...
Lieutenant Peary began his lecture by describing the position of Greenland, the earliest known Arctic land, which was first supposed to from a great Arctic continent, but is now known to be an island. It is by passing from the northernmost point of this island through the open sea that Lieutenant Peary thinks the North Pole will be reached. The old supposition that a volcano or deep hole would be found at the Pole is now discarded, and explorers expect to find there either land or an open ocean. The pole is now only 260 miles from the farthest northern...
...Lehmann began by speaking of the true function of a University. A question that is too often asked, asid he, is, "Do the universityes fit men for practical life?" This arises from the mistaken conception that the purpose of the University is to teach men the useful and practical in life. On the contrary the true object of a university is to educate the minds committed to its charge in the broadest manner possible, to store the mind with knowledge and culture. Like life, the university teaches not directly but by indirection. In after experience with the world...
...games as announced in the schedule published April 17 have now been played off, with the exception of those to be played with the Muses and with Scrub 2. These two nines withdrew before the games began. The record of the games follows...
...Nine has played three games a week, only one of which has been at Cambridge; and, in addition to all this travelling there has been regular practice nearly every day. There is no doubt that the men are trying hard to do their best. But considering that the team began the season by playing fairly well, and with all except one of last year's team back, the present slump was not expected to such an extent, and the way in which it is regareed by undergraduates shows that the causes of it are not understood...