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...Yale Junior Promenade will occur next Tuesday evening. This is the great society ball of the season and holds a far more prominent place there than any social event does here. The arrangements, as now made, promise that the promenade this year will exceed in brilliancy those of previous years. The decorations, by Gunzel of New York, will be on the same general plan as last year, but more elaborate. The dance music will be played by Landor's orchestra and Wheeler and Wilson's band will play during the intermission. The programme is as follows...
...seems almost probable that because of the important knowledge which must be gained by a close study of these photographs, the eclipse of 1889 will be looked upon, among men devoted to the study of practical astronomy, as marking an epoch in the history of solar physics. The great thirteen-inch Boyden telescope, with a lens specially corrected for photographic work, was successfully operated in securing eight large-scale pictures of the sun's corona, and these appear certain to be the finest representations of this strange object ever obtained. Up to this perion the great trouble has been that...
Athletics at Andover have never been in a better condition than now, and this is due to a great extent to Andover's athletic victories of the past year...
...track athletics and in gymnasium work, Andover suffers a great deal by the absence of a track and a suitable gymnasium. To overcome the obstacle the students and graduates are trying to raise the necessary sum of money...
...announcement is made in another column of a series of lectures which will prove exceedingly attractive to the college. It is to the Deulscher Verein that we are indebted for this opportunity to meet several eminent scholars and hear their opinions on subjects of great interest in connection with Germany. The first of these on "The Present Condition of Germany" will be especially opportune, as it will give a chance to compare the politics of that country with those of France, which have just been vividly described by Professor Cohn. The movement among the societies of the same type...