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...coxswain's pump for the practice shell of the University crew has been put into practical use and its efficiency exceeds the most sanguine hopes of its inventor, Captain Armstrong. It throws about eight gallons of water from the shell per minute and interferes in no way with the motion of the boat. All the crews are on Lake Whitney practicing for the interclass races which take place on Wednesday...
...lecture will be given each month by some speaker well known in the scientific world. Mr. Clemens Herschel, of New York, will lecture on Roman Acqueducts in the latter part of February. In the latter part of March Francis B. Crocker, professor of electrical engineering in Columbia College, and inventor of the Crocker-Wheeler motor, will speak. His subject will probably be the Definitions of Electric Measurement. These dates are not positively decided, nor the speakers for the other occasions. Engineer-in-Chief Melville of the United States Navy, has been asked to continue the story of the Arctic relief...
...coaching has been more systematic than ever before. Dr. Brooks has been chairman and general advisor; Drs. Conant and Porter medical attendants; Lewis, Cranston, Crosby, Willard, Newell, Trafford coaches for special positions; Mr. Deland inventor of new plays; and Mr. Lathrop trainer in general...
...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 in front of which were placed armatures. When one of these armatures was vibrated the same vibrations were observed in the other...
...Trinity Church, the scene in the college yard, and finally the burial at Mount Auburn. There are a number of other good articles though we have mentioned the best of them. Some of the others are "The Old Meeting-House in Hingham Mass." by Price Collier, "The Real Inventor of the Steamboat," and an article by C. J. Danforth on "Trout Fishing in New England...