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...Bussey property has been devoted to the culture of trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants, which adds greatly to the intrinsic value of this professorship. A library of three thousand books on subjects relating directly to character of the establishment gives a student ample opportunities for collateral reading. Judging from recent improvements, and past results of excellent work, the future of the Bussey Institution is certainly promising...
...bout was one of the prettiest in feather-weight sparring that has been seen in the gymnasium in a long time. This entire gentlemanliness and good-nature of the contestants, together with the grit and vigor with which they fought, showed that sparring is not necessarily what some recent exhibitions might lead observers to suppose. The contestants were warmly applauded after each round...
...extend the spectrum beyond the visible part. The great interest of to-day, however, centers in the invisible rays of heat. Until very recently, photographs could only be taken by violet rays of the spectrum. Now, however, the method has been extended so as to include the yellow and red rays, known as the all-day exposure method. Here the lecturer showed a photograph taken by Mr. Burbank, '89, of two sodium lines. It is the first one of the kind that has ever been produced. America has done more in the last fifty years to bring photography to perfection...
...following letter has been received at the CRIMSON Office from an old editor, now resident in New York. We publish it as it gives some interesting facts about the recent storm in New York...
...last meeting of the Appalachian Club, which was held on Wednesday, at the Institute of Technology, Mr. Abram G. Clark of Cambridge, the well-known manufacturer of large telescopes, was present, and gave an account of his recent visit to the observatory, telling about the views of the rings of Saturn and his discovery of a new star in the traperium of Orion...