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Lecture. The Civil Law and the Minister. Hon. George S. Hale. Divinity Chapel...
Cornell students recently celebrated the eighty-eighth birthday of Hon. Henry W. Sage, who has given Cornell about...
...DECISION.The judges, Professor Edmund J. James, of the University of Pennsylvania, Hon. Carl Schurz, and Gen. Francis A. Walker, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, consulted for about five minutes and then Professor James announced the decision. He said that the excellence of the speaking on both sides had rendered the task of the judges a peculiarly difficult one, but that they had finally agreed that if a marking were to be made on a scale of 100, Yale deserved 99 and Harvard...
...Thomas Wentworth Higginson will preside. The judges are Professor E. J. James, University of Pennsylvania; Hon. Carl Schurz, New York; Gen. Francis A. Walker, President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After the debate there will be an informal dinner at the Colonial Club to which the judges, speakers, and several men in college who are prominent in debate have been invited...
...Hon. Thomas D. Lockwood, of the American Bell Telephone Company, delivered a lecture last night, before a large audience, on "The Progressive Evolution of the Telephone System of today." Mr. Lockwood said that the first appearance of the telephone in anything like its present shape was in 1876, when a very simple apparatus, which could transmit a few words and phrases, was placed on exhibition at the Centennial Exhibition by its inventor, Mr. Alexander Graham Bell. The first form was what is known as the magneto telephone, which consisted of an electro magnet at each end of the line...