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...result of Saturday's game was disappointing. There were not a few predictions that the University team would win by two touchdowns, and it was considered doubtful our opponents would score; the thought of being obliged to convert certain defeat into a tie by a long run would have found few supporters. Such is the optimism which will persistently put in appearance when a good start has been made and reckons without its host to its own misfortune. It is to be hoped that this misfortune has amounted to destruction...
...prime care. While his colleagues often felt that what he urged required supplementation, or even occasional antagonism, his simplicity, sweetness, and generosity won their affection as truly as his learning did their respect. To him many a young instructor has turned in a literary or personal exigency and found in his disciplined judgment and sympathetic heart help of incalculable worth. How time has been found for this costliest sort of kindness is known to Mr. Norton alone...
...heating power of gas were discovered that man first rose in the air. Only two years after the discovery of the balloon, Dr. Jeffries of Boston made an ascent for a scientific study of the atmosphere, and soon after crossed the English Channel in his balloon. As was found out after these experiments, the upper strata of the air at a distance of more than five or six miles from the earth, were both too cold and too rarefled for human beings. Mechanical contrivances for recording temperature and pressure were therefore devised and sent up in empty balloons. These were...
...excavations were carried on at two sites. The first is near the modern village of Sebastiyeh, and is marked by a cluster of standing columns. These are commonly considered as belonging to a temple erected at Samaria by Herod the Great. There also was found great quantities of pottery, mostly Greek and Roman...
...which Cutler pulled White through the opposite tackle for a touchdown. Burr kicked the goal. Harvard's backfield was changed at this point. After an exchange of punts, Harvard got the ball on its own 47-yard line. Leslie and Cutler made fifteen yards in two rushes; then Leslie found a good hole at right tackle and went through for fifteen yards. Burr tried a 30-yard forward pass to Cutting, who was blocked, the ball going to Williams. Brown broke up a forward pass and threw the man who received the ball for a loss. Williams punted...