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...subjects connected with photography, will be given at 8 o'clock tonight in the Fogg Lecture Room, by Mr. M. D. Miller. His subject will be. "The Manufacture of Lenses." He will explain with stereopticon illustrations, the processes in lens making from the raw material to the finished product. The lecture is open to the public...
...Miller will give the first of these lectures next Wednesday evening, at 8 o'clock, in the Fogg Lecture Room. His subject will be "The Manufacture of Lenses." He will explain, with stereopticon illustrations, the processes in lens making from the raw material to the finished product...
...civil service reformers, he said, is to abolish the boss system in American politics; the improvement of the civil service itself is but a by-product. The boss works through a large army of office-holders and would-be office-holders, and it is through his handling of the patronage that he controls primaries and conventions, and consequently legislation. The so-called examinations for entrance to the civil service are in the main practical tests of fitness for the various positions to be filled. There are over four hundred distinctly different kinds of examinations in the national service. The total...
...Beginnings of Poetry," by Francis B. Gummere '75, is a careful and rather extensive study of the use of poetry as a social institution; it has for its aim, to quote from the opening chapter, "the recording, the classifying and the comparing of the poetic product at large." This involves an analysis of poetry with the view of determining its essential characteristic, which, the author decides, is rhythm. As will be seen, the strictness of the above conclusion bars out all so-called "poetic prose," such as the nobler passages in the Old Testament of the Bible. Indeed this result...
Literature rests on the love of a good book. A book is the product of the age and hour in which it is brought forth, and it reflects the passions and the feelings of the crowd. To study changing literary tastes is to approach human life in all its aspects. It takes no knowledge of philosophy to do this, because observation is all that is necessary. Literary fashions are affected by the climate, the religion and the politics of the land. Just as the fashions of a country are sometimes curious, sometimes amusing, so are the literary tastes of that...