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...second movement the flutes carry the air with an accompaniment by the violins and a sort of echo by the harp. Toward the end the whole orchestra works up to a climax and then softens and ends with a pianissimo passage. In the third movement there are some very difficult parts for the flute. The fourth is quiet in the first theme and ends in a burst of sound from the whole orchestra...
These are the reasons advanced by the Woman's Education Association for the union of the Annex and the University and they are certainly sound and important. It would be difficult to state just how such a union would be viewed by undergraduates. Undergraduate views, however, upon this subject would doubtless not be of much influence. The idea of a co-educational college like those of the West, probably comes first to mind, but such a change in the college would probably not happen. The system of the education of both departments would be left to the Administrative Boards...
...graduate department of the Yale psychological laboratory, has perfected an invention which is of unusual importance, not only in delicate investigations on mental reaction, but of considerable practical value to electricians generally. While experimenting on the subject of the distraction, he devised a machine which solves the difficult problem of making or breaking two or more electrical currents at the same instant. Hitherto Ewald's key for recording the time of mental reaction has been used, but it will be replaced in laboratory and practical use by the Bliss Multiple Key, which not only saves one-half the labor...
Garvin Douglass was another of these men. He translated Virgil and wrote a good many poems himself. His work contains much honor and pathos but is written in such difficult language that it is little known. Last came Sir David Lindsay who, during his life was the most popular poet in Scotland. He was a reformer in the form of a poet. He wrote the bitterest satires and invectives against the political and social evils of his time and exercised a great influence upon the Cort...
...fact that Rev. Lyman Abbott will conduct prayers for the next ten days should ensure a large attendance at the chapel. Dr. Abbott is too well known here to need any words of introduction. It is difficult for him to spare the time for preaching at Harvard, and we should do all we can to show him our appreciation of his presence here...