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...than it has been heretofore. In addition to this work in co-operation with the Russian observers, a special effort was made to obtain photographs of the moon in the various stages of the eclipse. Photographs of the moon's spectrum were also taken, and these contribute in an indirect way to the study of light, the immediate result being a determination of colors...
...attended with serious results. We will hope that with the "shacks" the fever is to stop. Perhaps it would be well if these charming companions were always on the strike - provided they meant business and staid away without undertaking to damage property. But the word strike, in some indirect way, suggests a yard policeman. We wish the man and the birch switch would return to active duty...
mand of any set of muscles. The agility and firmness, for instance, to be gained in boxing is not wholly a physical gain; it has, also, some reactions upon the habits of an intellectual man, which are not to be despised. There are also indirect moral reactions of college athletics which are thoroughly healthful. Physical training and physical excesses do not go together. The disappearance of the worst forms of hazing seems to me to be in part an effect of the increased interest in athletics...
...languages. A university should maintain a number of chairs, which bring no direct returns, for the sake of its reputation. We feel sure that the experiment of offering instruction in Chinese, for instance, will in the end result to Harvard's advantage. It is for the sake of this indirect advantage, but seldom a pecuniary one, however, that we urge the continuance of much of the special instruction for which there is as yet but little demand in this country. Of course, in the present state of the university exchequer, the maintenance of such professorships can hardly be expected...
...them: "Whose membership of any rowing or other athletic club was bot brought about, or does not continue, because of any mutual agreement or understanding, expressed or implied, whereby his becoming or continuing a member of such club would be of any pecuniary benefit to him whatever, direct or indirect." When we see a man devoting nearly his whole time to the oar and indulging in expensive habits, we know that he cannot keep within the letter of the amateur law, unless he has a fixed income; and if we happen to know that he has no property which yields...