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...more--all that has remained after the centuries' old oppression by the Turks--belonging to a progressive race established in Asia Minor since time immemorial, that has rendered invaluable services to literature, civilization, and Christianity, is being exterminated or exiled from their country which gave the world Homer, Euclid, Herodotus and other masters of thought...
...Euclid's laws suffered a somewhat severe shock when scientists stated that, according to this theory, there is no infinity. To the natural question of "What lies beyond the end?" the scientists answer that space so nearly approaches infinity that we would not be able to determine the difference...
Friday, June 10.--Business meeting at the Hollenden at 10 o'clock; luncheon at the Tavern Club, 12 to 2 o'clock; business meeting at the Hollenden at 2.30 o'clock; dinner at the Euclid Club at 6.30 o'clock; smoker at the Euclid Club at 7.30 o'clock...
...intercollegiate match. He also won the individual championship in the same tournament by defeating H. B. McFarland of Pennsylvania in the final round. In 1902 be won the western championship from W. E. Egan '05, and this year was runner-up in the western championship held at the Euclid Golf Club, Cleveland. He also won the open tournament held at the Exmoor Country Club. Chicago, this summer...
...Parker gave a very interesting talk before the Religious Union in Holden Chapel last night on the Stoic poet, Cleanthes. Cleanthes was by profession an athlete or boxer who lived in Athens in the time of Euclid and Archimedes. He was not by profession a poet, but when he came to Athens he soon saw that there was something better to live for than boxing. So he put himself under the instruction of Zeno, a Stoic philosopher. But since he was a poor man he was obliged to work nearly all night to support himself. He was summoned before...