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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...doubtless unnecessary to call the attention of students to the announcement of Professor Trowbridge's lecture which appears in another column. The interest taken in the recent experiments of Professor Trowbridge in cathode ray photography has been widespread, and it is safe to predict that the seating capacity of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory will be severely tested at the first lecture on this subject this evening. Interest in the work of Professor Trowbridge has not been confined to the University by any means. The whole scientific world has watched with attention the results of his experiments with this wonderful kind...
...little "Lark," a recent innovation into the ranks of the decadent minature magazines, is published monthly by Wm. Doxey at San Francisco. It is essentailly a humorous publication and such a delightfully humorous one as to insure its success. The little imbecilic verses which it prints with still more imbecilic pictures by Gillett Burgess are positively works of art. They are on the order of Sears' Nonsense Rhymes but are even better than those recognized classics in that they are, if possible, more inane...
...recent decree introduces all the best features of the German system into the French faculties of science. Hereafter a student will be admitted to these faculties on an American bachelor's degree, and will be permitted to choose his studies. After pursuing any scientific course a year, he can, if he wishes, apply for an examination in this branch, and if successful obtain a certificat d'etude. Three such certificates, taken, for instance, say, in calculus, pure mechanics and astronomy, will make him a licencie, and he can then secure the French doctorate, which is decidedly superior to the German...
...improbable.- (a) The mischievous influence of the press is powerful.- (1) Shown in the case of England's entering on the Crimean War.- (2) Shown in our recent dispute with England.- (b) Our inconsiderate action in 1812 shows this.- (c) The recent Venezuelan quarrel proves...
...more sensitive to so-called "insults against national honor": Nation LXII, 47.- (x) Efficiency of armaments depends on belief that war is imminent: Nation LIV, 44; LVI, 360. (2) Increase of foreign complications and growth of war spirit in the United States has been commensurate with recent growth of navy: Nation LVI. 44.- (x) Those in authority have unnecessarily seized opportunities of getting the nation into trouble.- (I) Barrundia affair-(II) Chilian affair.- (III) Hawilan affair-(IV) Venezuela question.- (y) Those in navy impatient for war: Nation LVI, 44.- (I) It is their business.- (II) It brings them honors...