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...leadership of Dr. Edmund J. James of the Faculty of the University of Pennsylvania. Now, after four years of hard labor in the cause, the pressure of other work forces him to resign the office of president of the society. His letter of resignation is a history of the progress of an enterprise whose success has been very gratifying to its founders and to which Dr. James has contributed in no small degree...
Several accidents happened during the progress of the games: N. W. Bingham '95, wrenched his knee in the 100 yards and was unable to enter the final heat; C. L. Bremer '96, broke his pole in the pole vault while jumping and sustained a heavy fall; F. H. Bigelow '98, after winning the final heat in the 100 yards dash, and a trial heat in the 220 yards dash was completely exhausted and was unable to enter the final heat in the 220 yards dash...
Last night at the Colonial Clubhouse Col. T. W. Higginson gave a very entertaining address before the Graduate Club. Before the address a business meeting was held during the progress of which the Graduate Conference, to be held in New York next week, was discussed. Dr. Davenport was also appointed secretary of the Graduate Club for the term of ten years. This office has nothing to do with the regular secretaryship. It corresponds in a way to the class secretaryship in order that non-resident graduates may be kept in touch with the life of the Graduate Club...
...tinting of the walls and ceilings is now in progress so that there is no doubt but what the building will be opened by June 1, as anticipated...
...natural phenomena. This was due to Plato who founded that school of philosophers known as the Sceptics. Aristotle carried Plato's idea further. He conceived that the production of everything was due to antecedent causes. Thus science departed from the theistic conception. For a while Greek learning made rapid progress, but by the advent of the Romans it was crushed. Science ceased to have a place among the arts in Greece. Many learned Greeks found their way to Alexandria, where, until the burning of the library, science was fostered...