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...Prof. Sargent, however, believes that the chief end of exercise is harmonious development, and the difficulty with boxing is that it has a tendency to interfere with other forms of physical activity. The intellectual pleasure which is derived from a glove contest is very keen, both to the participants and the spectators. The alertness demanded and exhibited, both for defence and attack, is absorbing, and, therefore, an interest in boxing is very likely to destroy all pleasure in other exercises that are essential to producing that harmonious development at which Prof. Sargent aims. A young man who devotes himself exclusively...
...article on "Volcanoes" in Scribner's Magazine for February, there will appear a translation by Prof. J. G. Crosswell, of the famous letters of the younger Pliny to Tacitus, describing the great eruption of Vesuvius in 63, A. D. It is believed that this is the best translation of these letters which has yet appeared...
...Prof. S. C. Langley, who received his early training at the Harvard Observatory, has been elected to succeed the late Prof. Baird as secretary of the Smithsonian Institute...
...Prof. Bocher, Prof. Cohn and Mr. Sanderson will give a series of French readings later in the winter at the Annex...
...Gardner, $5000 toward the addition to the Museum of Comparative Zoology. The total amount of gifts for immediate use is $36,024.59, and of gifts to form new funds or increase old ones, $987,551.14. The gifts from George W. Childs of a memorial window of the late Prof. Henry W. Long-fellow, to be placed in Memorial Hall, and from William E. Sparks, the historical manuscripts which belonged to his father, the late Jared Sparks, are acknowledged. The college term bills brought in a total of $198,855.96, and the college salaries footed a total...