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...jollity, during the days of undergraduate enrolment in the University. Let 1916 rally to the support of the cause; let 1916 gather en masse in the wee small hours of the morning; let 1916, to a man, don the habiliments of the picnicker and swell the throng which will descend upon the land of heretofore unknown and untasted joys...
...Union last evening to hear Dr. Fitch, the handbook, having no definite custodian, has strayed off the road into oblivion somewhere between here and last September. It was established with an ideal worthy of a better fate. If the Territorial Clubs are insistent upon dying, it will, we suppose, descend eventually to that already overburdened organization--the Student Council--for support. But if the Territorial Clubs can revive sufficiently to lay the responsibility of discovering the erring booklet on a committee of three or four men, the same aim may be accomplished with infinitely more credit to the Federation...
...speed of the heavier-than-air machine. It is on the engine that French scientists are now putting their greatest efforts. To get the maximum horse-power with a minimum weight is the present problem of aeronautics. If the engine ceases to supply power the aeroplane has to descend and if this happens over a country devoid of suitable landing places the results are bound to be serious...
...here show just as much criminal negil- gence. In each room on the upper stories of the Yard buildings--this is true at least of Matthews, I am not certain as to the others--there is one and only one rope fire escape, by which one person could probably descend in safety. It is so arranged that it cannot be used a second time without pulling the entire length of the rope through a device which grips it tightly (preventing the descent from being too rapid). This would take at least ten minutes after the seat of the escape...
Until recently the only account of the original Phoenician alphabet -- from which it is agreed the Western alphabets descend through their undoubted ancestor, the Greek,--said that it was derived from an Egyptian Hieratic system of writing. In this theory there is a break of more than a thousand years which separate the Moabite stone from the Prisse Papyrus, "the oldest book in the world." It is possible that the Semites contributed to our alphabet the names of the letters. With these names came, probably through the same people, its specifically alphabetic character. But it is evident that, previous...