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...packages of diaper cloth; electric lamps; 200 specially-designed book-ends to keep the books on the Library shelves from slumping; rubber-wheeled trucks to go between the Library stacks and to make no noise while they are going; a cabinet designed to hold and index 20,000 lantern slides; a museum case which must be moth-proof and worm-proof; tents for a camp; lenses from Germany for a powerful telescope; a carefully-planned outfit for a South African expedition; a cushion for an instructor's office chair; fresh bottled-water for a thirsty professor; red and yellow chalk...
Professor Charles Diehl, of the University of Paris, and Visiting Lecturer at Harvard University, lectures this afternoon at 3 o'clock in the Old Fogg Museum on Byzantine Art in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries." The lecture will be given in French, and is to be illustrated by lantern slides. It is open to the public...
Previous to this time the only interruptions that have occurred in Professor Merriman's lectures, have been occasional lantern slide lectures...
...invasion of the state university at Oregon and that the successful application of this principle is dependent upon the limitation of enrolment, it is significant that the Committee on Taxation of the Ohio State Legislature has recommended the establishment of a state board of college entrance. The Ohio State Lantern reports that "The committee proposes that standents ranking in the lowest third of the graduating class of high schools who seek admission to state universities or normal schools be required to pass entrance examinations...
This particular proposal is a modest one but it will serve very well as an entering wedge into the citadel of precedent and inertia. As the Lantern says, "If the legislature does create a state board of entrance this session it will be showing the way to other states. The thing is bound to come and it is only a question of which state will be the first...