Word: pens
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...recent contribution to the rapidly increasing number of works on political history and science is the volume under the above title. from the pen of Woodrow Wilson, Fellow of Johns Hopkins. The work is a clearly written exposition of the method by which our governmental machinery is run. The majority of American voters have but a crude conception of the labors which lie before each incoming congress, and a still more indefinite idea of the way in which these labors are performed. It is with interest, and often with surprise, that one reads the description of the extraordinary powers conferred...
LOST.-A Stylographic Pen. Please return to A. M. Morse, care Harvard Co-operative Society, Cambridge Mass., and oblige...
LOST.-A stylographic Pen. Please return to A. M. Morse, care Harvard Co-operative Society, Cambridge Mass., and oblige...
Among the contributions to the Science Almanac for 1885, we notice a paper on "Tornadoes," by Mr. W. M. Davis, of Harvard University, and an essay on "Temperature and its changes in the United States," from the same pen. Among the illustrations of the work are two prepared by Mr. O. C. Wendell, of the Harvard Observatory...
...been unwilling to admit that the need of reform existed. Thus it was the position of the Yale authorities that checked our faculty in its earlier attempts to improve athletics, and the Yale papers have never, within recollection, advocated athletic reforms. Under these circumstances an article from a Yale pen, calling for a higher standard in college sports, is a happy sign of progress. Take these two sentences of Mr. Ripley's, for instance: "The leading principle," he says, "in contests between gentlemen, should be that the best man should beat, and in a gentlemanly way." Again, he says that...