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...building. Each young lady was provided with a candle, and a-well, no, not a "black bottle," but a bottle of salts, let us say. The procession was loudly cheered at various points on the route, and it was thought that the affair was to pass off without a jar, when suddenly, as the chief marshaless and her staff were about to descend the stairs leading to the ground floor, they were assaulted with orange peel, and showers of water by a body of hoodlumettes ensconced upon the stairs above. This assault was the signal for little less than...
...expected to row better. They are, perhaps, suffering from over confidence, a fault that has more than once lost a race. There is, however, good mettle in the boat, and great improvement is to be expected. The men are not gentle enough in shooting out their hands, but jar the boat from bow to stern, thereby materially affecting its speed. The following are the names...
...east end of the building and by a stairway removed as far as practicable from the rooms devoted to special investigations. This arrangement, and the placing of the engines and dynamos on the outside of the building, in a separate building to the eastward, will serve to prevent the jar of the machinery and the tramping of students from interfering with delicate observations. The basement of the central piece is occupied by receiving-rooms and storage for heavy pieces of apparatus. The western section is the one which the professors and instructors of physics have most carefully considered. The lower...
...poem, "A Vision," shows an earnest sympathy and intensity of feeling, but has unfortunately many marks of artificialness that jar upon the reader but still do not affect him very strongly, inasmuch as he feels that the artificialness exists only in the phrase and not in the poetic current...
Chord that must jar the rest. No, it is better