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...recent visit to the workshop of the famous lens makers, Alvin Clark & Sons, Cambridgeport, furnishes some interesting facts concerning the objective for the great telescope of the Lick Observatory in California. It being impossible to get the glasses cast satisfactorily in this country, the Clarks sent to Paris after them soon after receiving the order from the trustees of the Observatory. Considerable time was spent before the first glass, the flint, was successfully cast, and this did not reach Mr. Clark until about three years ago. A very much longer delay accompanied the casting of the crown glass, which...
...executive committee are to be congratulated upon the selection of the topic for debate in the Union this evening. Russian Nihilism is one of the most momentous issues of modern times. Its discussion cannot fail to interest and instruct to an unusual degree. The recent lectures upon Socialism have renewed the interest in the question of the communistic spirit of the lower classes of to-day, and the debate to-night promises to be one of the best contested of the year. As this evening offers the last opportunity to those who have not yet spoken from the floor...
Hygiene - Its division into personal hygiene and public health. Ground covered by personal hygiene. Hygiene in early times and its development in recent years. Knowledge of anatomy and physiology necessary to hygiene. Inheritance - external and internal causes of disease - avoidable diseases - vital statistics...
...WEDNESDAY.English VI. Oral discussion, opened by Mr. Chamberlain: Recent Discussions of Socialism. Sever...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - In a recent issue of the "CRIMSON" there was an unfavorable comment on the name chosen for the novel debating society at Johns Hopkins. It was held to be unpatriotic that the meeting of students was named and modeled after the English "House of Commons" rather than our own "House of Representatives." And, further, "the anglomaniac tendencies in American Universities" that have shown themselves "in peculiar dress and in strangely distorted pronunciation," were harshly condemned...