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...candidates for the junior crew have been working regularly during the examination period and are rowing the full stroke. A few of last year's crew began work yesterday and the rest will probably come out today. The order of the first crew yesterday was as follows: Stroke, Gleason; 7, Hovey; 6, Dunlop; 5, Ladd; 4, Sanders; 3, Connor; 2, Buell; bow, Little...
...account of the slight acquaintance which most persons, even most cultivated persons, have with the life and writings of Sir Thomas Browne, Mr. Copeland began his lecture with an unusually full comment upon the life and surroundings of this writer. Browne, although the son of a London merchant, was of gentle descent on both sides of the house. His father's comfortable fortune enabled him to send his son to school at Winchester. He afterward took the Bachelor's Degree at Oxford and as the result of study at Montpelier, Padua, and Leyden received the degree of Doctor of Physic...
Professor Macvane began with the history of the disputed territory from the time that Spain claimed Guiana. It is not international law, the lecturer said, that discovery gives claim to possession. The claims of Spain in Guiana were not repeated by other European countries since they were not backed up by actual possession. Guiana changed hands many times...
About forty candidates for the Cornell baseball team began training Monday...
...spherical Crookes tube, and the action was maintained with this arrangement about two minutes, when the tube became so hot that the operation was stopped. The sensitive plate was then taken out and then developed with rodinol. Soon the part which had not been shielded by the glass slips began to show dark, and in a very short time the development was completed, the boundaries of the exposed part of the plate being well defined for the whole length of the plate. The image was then "fixed" in the ordinary...