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...Newcomb '92 has been elected editor-in-chief of the Williams Weekly...
...Copley" medal for 1890 has been awarded to Professor Newcomb of Johns Hopkins University, by the Royal Society of Lodon. This medal is yearly given to that man who has given the most valuable aid to scientific research during the year. It was first given to Benjamin Franklin. It is the highest honor ever attained by a scientific man to receive this medal...
...leading paper in the May number of the North American Review, by Speaker Reed, on "Reforms Needed in the House," deals chiefly with the presentation of bills and economy of time. "Soap Bubbles of Socialism, by Professor Simon Newcomb, indirectly controverts Powderly and Bellamy theories with a sort of ingen uousness that reminds one that a horse chestnut may be proved a chestnut horse. "The Typical American," by Andrew Lang and Max O'Rell, is of the very frothiest substance. but the Lang half has a sparkle which the O'Rell one is totally without. "Audacity in Woman Novelises...
...officers of St. Paul's School Athletic Association are-President, Jeremiah S. Black; vice-president, Ernest Ryler; field marshall, Chapman H. Hymans; secretary, Newcomb B. Cole; treasuer, Harry S. Lyman...
...abstract of Wagner's work on "The Present State of Political Economy," and some tables and statistics. It is announced that papers will be undertaken during the year by Gen. Francis A. Walker, J. Lawrence Laughlin, A. McFarland Davis, Carroll D. Wright, F. W. Taussig, W. C. Ford, Simon Newcomb and other prominent economical writers. The paper will be published four times a year, price $2.50 per annum, on sale at Sever...