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Prof. Edward Hitchcock of Amherst has presented to the Conn. Valley Historical Society a piece of the rock from which the soldiers of the rebellion under Daniel Shays, made their flint 100 years ago. - Yale News...
...special feature in '88 was a collection of benefactors of the college, each dressed in characteristic costume: some of these were Sam Adams, Count Rumford, Boylston, Gore, Hollis, Stoughton, Holworthy, Flint, Josiah Quincy, and the Indian freshman with the unpronounceable name...
...great telescope of the Lick Observatory in California. It being impossible to get the glasses cast satisfactorily in this country, the Clarks sent to Paris after them soon after receiving the order from the trustees of the Observatory. Considerable time was spent before the first glass, the flint, was successfully cast, and this did not reach Mr. Clark until about three years ago. A very much longer delay accompanied the casting of the crown glass, which was received last October. The original castings were an inch or more greater radius than after grinding, and almost innumerable difficulties...
...present time, the flint is entirely ground and polished on one side, but on the other has yet to undergo corrections for diffraction. Whereas it is now slightly convex on this latter side it will have to be ground flat or even a trifle concave, to bring about the desired result. The crown is already ground and is being put through the process of polishing...
...McCosh is making an effort to revive the Princeton Review. A few persons have been asked to subscribe $1000 apiece and become a Board of Management. Professor Sloane will be the editor, and such men as Dr. McCosh, Dr. Flint, Dr. Caldewood, Dr. W. C. Prine, Dr. Yound, and the Marquand brothers will contribute...