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...winds, streams, currents, and glaciers. It is almost impossible to estimate the amount of work due to these causes, for every one of these inorganic means is almost constantly at work, Organic means are of those of insects, fishes, lower mammalia and man. The buoyancy of seeds differs greatly, and to the greater lightness of some seeds in a great measure is due their greater chances for dissemination; for if they are buoyant they will often be carried a great ways on the surface of the water, and take root in a soil far distant from the place...
CHARLES L. B. WITHROW.[We are glad to publish the above as it explains in a great measure the misunderstood action of the Camera Club, EDS. CRIMSON...
...books on hand as the stock depreciates rapidly, and with present imperfect system of getting information about the number of books to be used, (implying a chance of oversupply or a lack of sufficient copies for the students of any course) the risk in this department is very great. Few are aware of the extent to which the best books now published have been offered all this year...
...connecting wires and set fire to the buildings it enters. A current taken from the electric railway system would have the same objections. Another danger from any system with uninsulated wires which run near others is that storms often bring the different wires into contact, and thus currents of great intensity may flow into channels not intended for them. Several recent accidents have been due to this cause, such as the killing of a horse in Cambridge, and the simultaneous burning of four or five houses in Somerville...
...crew will become overconfident, and not train with sufficient care. The men have been somewhat handicapped by not having a regular coach, but Bob Cook will take them in hand during the Easter recess, when they will row twice a day and at the end of that time a great improvement may be looked...