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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...York alumni have shown that they know how to appreciate hard work. The presentation of cups by them to the eleven is the expression of the amount of active interest which these graduates take in college athletics in general, and in our own teams in particular. This thoughtfulness and consideration is more than welcome; and it does not a little to increase the effective desire of winning, and makes a victory all the more valuable. If we were able to bring about a similar loyal spirit, a similar active appreciation of hard work and fair methods, on the part...
...feet higher, so that when special observations are essential, recourse is had to the latter place and hither most of the instruments may be conveyed, although the larger telescope is never moved from Arequipa. Investigations made here are, conducted with regard-first to the meteorology of the globe, with particular reference to cloudiness and other phenomena affecting the choice of astronomical stations; secondly, to to the fundamental principles of astronomical photography; thirdly, to the great nebulous region comprising a large part of the constellation Orion; fourthly, to the best form of standard light; and finally to other details of quantitative...
...annual observance of the day of prayer for colleges will occur on Thursday of this week. The college has arranged for no special service but at the Vesper Service which occurs in the afternoon the particular significance of the day will doubtless be given due prominence. At the meeting of the Y. M. C. A. in the evening, too, the service will be given up largely to prayer for our own and other colleges...
...most valuable of which are implements and masks from the Pacific islands, specimens of Peruvian pottery, various copper instruments found by a sailor in Mexico, some of the forms of which have never before been found. The copper instruments will give some clew, till now undiscovered, to the particular way that the ancients of Mexico and Central America cut stone...
...whole the number is very satisfactory. The individual articles are perhaps in some cases of less merit than has been the instance in some numbers of the Advocate. It is, however, up to the usual good standard of the paper. From one particular point of view it deserves praise, in that most of the contributions, both of fact and fiction, deal with college topics. If undergraduates would more closely follow this principle in their writings, they would avoid the criticism so frequently brought against them of attempting to discuss matters beyond their experience, not to say above their comprehension...