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...realm of landscape, there are the sunny restful Italian scenes of Jan Both and Nicholas Berchem. Some-what more Dutch in character are the sweeping compositions of Jan van Goyen and Solomon and Jacob Ruisdael, the gloomy moonlight view of Aart van der Neer, the wind-swept crags of Everdingen, and the quiet seas of William van der Velde. The genre painters are well represented by the rollicking drawings of Adrian van Ostade and Jan Steen, and the somewhat more restrained compositions of Nicholas Maes and Cornelius Dusart. Painters of animals are illustrated by brilliant little sketches of Paul Potter...
...13th day the first man died, raving; on the 14th day their water gave out, two more died. They tried to make a condenser to get fresh water, but had little success. On the iyth day the chief engi- neer died. With part of his body they made a broth. "The salt in the sea water in which the flesh was boiled was absorbed by the flesh, leaving the broth free from salt and not unpleasant to taste. The flesh was like tough veal." On the 23d day the survivors drank the blood from a fresh corpse. Next day they...
...Charles Augustus Stone and Edwin Sibley Webster entered Massachusetts Institute of Technology. They be came such close friends that even in their college days they were a team called "Stone & Webster." At that time electricity was passing through much the same pio neer period now observable in aviation. Bell had just invented the telephone. The first railway electrification was just completed. So Students Stone & Webster majored in electrical engineering, took degrees in 1888. Then came one year of separation which Mr. Stone spent with Thompson-Houston Co. (forerunner of General Electric) while Mr. Webster entered a bank...
College Ranking. Carl A. Fischer is the ranking college player of the country, according to the lists published by the U. S. L. T. A. The first ten: C. H. Fischer, Philadelphia College of Osteopathy; F. T. Anderson, Columbia; Phil Neer, Leland Stanford; Lucien E. Williams, Yale; P. Bettens, California; Gerald B. Emerson, Columbia; W. W. Ingraham, Harvard; Lewis White, Texas; Wallace Bates, California; M. Duane, Harvard...
From indications during the season it is doubtful if the University can do as well as last year when Fenno was the runner-up to Phil Neer to Leland Stanford in the singles and paired with Fetbleman won the intercollegiate doubles championship. Duane, however, has at times shown streaks of brilliant playing which entitle him to consideration as a possible winner...