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...tank has been improved a good deal during the fall. Shallow boxes have been put in, and the water will be only eight or nine inches deep. The whole arrangement is made so that the water may move with a freer current. Oars with full blades are at present used and apparently they can be driven faster with the present arrangement than oars with holes in them could be driven in deeper water. Full bladed oars are an advantage in that they are livelier in the water...
...meeting of the Harvard Union was held last evening in Sever 11, President E. S. Griffin in the chair. A motion was made by Mr. Scott that a certain number of the future debates be conducted on the senate plan. His idea was that the debates would assume a freer attitude. This motion was seconded by Morton and passed. It was also moved that a committee be appointed to consider the question of a joint debate with some other college, presumably Yale. This was also passed and the president appointed Messrs. Morton, Scott and Furber as a committee. Messrs. Scott...
...Persian invasion marked a great period in the art of sculpturing the monuments, as well as in many other things. The style became freer, and the designs more complicated and interesting. There is, however, a great scarcity of funeral monuments for fifty years after the Persian war, which has never been satisfactorily explained. When they became more frequent again, the monuments exhibit a great variety of subjects. A favorite one is the dead man reclining on a couch, surrounded by his friends who make him offerings. The class of representations contains a special reference to the life beyond the grave...
...withstand the current of events, and even claimed for himself many of the great reforms which the impulse of freedom produced. Even when the old dynasty returned in 1815 and attempted to sweep away all the effects of the Revolution, they were eventually obliged to establish a government even freer than Napoleon's They could not restore a trace of the social inequalities, The new government established in 1830 was no contradiction of the Revolutionary principles but a step nearer a republic than the reactionary Bourbonism had been. It proved, however, impossible for the new king to follow the movement...
Arthur Michael, professor of chemistry of Tufts, is about to start on a trip around the world. he will be gone about 18 months, and during his absence Paul C. Freer, Ph. D., M. D., will have charge of his classes...