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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...lecture of last Monday night, Prof. Wright gave the results of his own researches for facts to work out the details of Prof. Agassiz's already proved Glacial Theory. He had himself located the southern boundary of the great ice sheet, which once covered the northern half of this continent, by means of the great heaps of sand and gravel called terminal moraines, pited up by the ice where its progress was stopped. These heaps are sometimes very large, one in Pennsylvania is 150 feet high and 12 miles long, Nantucket and Martha's Vinevard are also terminal moraines...
...Banjo Club then gave the "British Patrol," and their playing was remarkable for the correctness of time and the absence of discord...
...Glee Club gave the "Serenade" and "The Jolly Musician," and as before were encored by the audience. The "Waltz from Serenade" by the string instruments of the Pierian was well executed. Mr. Longworth, '91, concluded Part I by a very fine exhibition of violin playing. His work was remarkably skilful and finished, and he gives promise of becoming a very strong player...
...Wednesday evening, Prof Alpheus Hyatt, of Technology, who was formerly connected with the U. S. fish commission, delivered a lecture on "Sponges" before the Natural History Society, in which he gave the results of his studies, some of which are as yet unpublished. He differs from many others in his classification, and in regarding sponges as individuals not as colonies. A sponge is essentially a globular sieve with the meshes prolonged into a labyrinth of minute tubes. Contrary to the general belief, sponges breathe by means of their outer layer. The inner layer consists of small cells armed with whips...
Professor Cohn's treatment of the subject was admirable, and gave a comprehension of the situation which could never be gleaned from the facts presented in the newspapers...