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...current number of the Advocate, while it contains several very interesting articles, is hardly as good from a literary point of view, as the previous numbers of the year. The editorial column lacks dignity to make it effective. The leading editorial in particular is open to this criticism. The graduate movement which it so caustically refers to as "patronizing," and "kind," may not have the force and value which have been claimed for it, but it at least deserves commendation more than sneers. The editorial on the founding of Clark university is written in the same spirit of contempt...
...whole continent, shows a heroic firmness. It is a remarkable fact that all the French governments of the past century have proclaimed their acceptance of the principles of the Revolution. The first Napoleon, though at heart opposed to the liberty of the people, found himself unable to withstand the current of events, and even claimed for himself many of the great reforms which the impulse of freedom produced. Even when the old dynasty returned in 1815 and attempted to sweep away all the effects of the Revolution, they were eventually obliged to establish a government even freer than Napoleon...
...European governments which are now standing aloof from the centennial festivities of France, are the ones which always tried to check, the current of liberty. They feel that a blow has been struck at royalty and are unwiling to recognize the country which held the sword...
...sounding body; pitch, depending on the rate of vibration, and timbre or quality due to the form of vibration. When these three elements are determined the sound is determined. Therefore we should be able to reproduce any given sound. This may be done by means of the electrical current, and when it is accomplished in this way we have the telephone...
Professor Henry A. Rowland, of Johns Hopkins university, will lecture on "Modern iVews in relation to the Electrical Current," in the Jefferson Physical Laboratory, this evening at 8 o'clock. The lecture will be illusrated, and is open to the public. Professor Rowland is one of the greatest authorities on the subject of electricity...