Word: greate
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...very large congregation assembled in the chapel last evening to hear Dr. Lyman Abbott of Brooklyn. The subject of the discourse was "The Foundations of Christian Belief." It was a most eloquent sermon, and those students who did not hear it certainly lost a great opportunity. Dr. Abbott described the present age as one of great questionings; but he said that he was glad to find it so, because an age of doubt is an age of advancement. More intelligent bases of belief are now demanded and old allegiances are being cast away. We cannot, however, prove spiritual truths...
...Pudding Building is a great success. The new curtain recently hung is very handsome...
...Measures must be taken to-provide lodgings for the large number of students,- a number which is constantly on the increase.- The dormitories owned by the college are wholly inadequate to accommodate the crowd of applicants. As a result, the demand for desirable rooms near the yard is so great that no price is considered too exorbitant by the owners of private buildings. Landladies are enabled to retire with a handsome income after a few years in this business. Men whose purses are limited, and who are unsuccessful in drawing a college room, are obliged to retire some distance from...
...STRINGING TENNIS RACKETS.- We have the best thing in this line that has yet been produced-waterproof stringing. Dampness is the great enemy to racket strings and the prolific cause of much looseness and breakage. When treated with our Waterproof Filler the strings become impervious to dampness, and will keep in good condition a much longer time than would be possible otherwise. They can be taken to the seashore or mountains with safety if treated with the Waterproof Filler. We make a specialty of stringing for expert playing, and can guarantee fine work. James W. Brine, 10 and 11 Harvard...
...extend the spectrum beyond the visible part. The great interest of to-day, however, centers in the invisible rays of heat. Until very recently, photographs could only be taken by violet rays of the spectrum. Now, however, the method has been extended so as to include the yellow and red rays, known as the all-day exposure method. Here the lecturer showed a photograph taken by Mr. Burbank, '89, of two sodium lines. It is the first one of the kind that has ever been produced. America has done more in the last fifty years to bring photography to perfection...