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...necessary restrictions to prevent over-taxing of the facilities of any one House Dining Hall, to the partial abandonment of any others. If unlimited House eating were allowed, the accommodations of Adams House would be seriously strained on rainy days, because of its proximity to the Yard. Houses nearer the river would not be used much during the luncheon hours...
Conductor Hertz was ousted two years ago. Russian Issai Dobrowen and British Basil Cameron imported. But the orchestra has continued to drift nearer & nearer the rocks through lack of general support...
...while any human was near. For five weeks Lord Grey tried to tame them. "Late on summer evenings when I could get the canvasbacks by themselves I knelt, leaning over the edge of the bank, throwing small pieces of bread. ... In this way, evening by evening, I drew them nearer till at length in the dusk one evening a young canvasback snatched a piece of bread from my fingers. Then the frost of suspicion and fear began to thaw. I continued my coaxing and in a few days three of the four young canvasbacks would come to me for food...
...time to take cosmic ray readings during the solar eclipse. His mountain-top observations in many latitudes had led him to suspect that cosmic rays are not pulsations from outer space, as Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan thinks, but streams of electrons probably originating in Earth's atmosphere. The nearer the Equator, he observed, the less was the rays' intensity. Towards Earth's poles, the intensity increased. Electrons would give such an effect since they would tend to spiral polewards. His readings last week on Hudson Bay, he telegraphed Chicago, again confirmed his view. What special electro-magnetic...
...Marine Band played dirges at the funerals of Harrison, Taylor and Lincoln; accompanied Garfield's body to Cleveland; played "Lead Kindly Light" and "Nearer My God To Thee" at McKinley's funeral, and "Lead Kindly Light" again at Harding...