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Professor Pickering's report deals also with recent additions to the Astronomical Library; telegraphic announcements from all parts of the world; a new system of time service devised by Mr. Gerrish; the means of protection from fire at the Observatory, which are, it seems, but scant; the installation of steam heat in the west wing of the Observatory and a list of the year's publications...
...heat and the final heat was fought out between Schick, Moulton, Rust and Lilley who finished in the order named in 22 seconds. Schick's injured leg gave out about twenty yards from the tape or his time would have been faster. As it was he limped in a scant yard ahead of Moulton. Rust won third place. Harvard 51 1-2, Yale...
...that income should determine expense. In other words, these kindly Procrusteans propose to build a bedstead of ample size, and then to secure a fit by stretching out their prospective lodgers. If the lodgers were all to be tall men, this idea might be very good, but it is scant wisdom where accomodations are professedly designed for all, and when at least half of the public are certain to be woefully "short...
...interclub boat race yesterday was won by a scant length by the first Weld crew in 9 minutes and 44 seconds, fairly good time considering that the wind blew across the course, kicking up a choppy sea which bothered the star-board men considerably. The first Newell crew, which was second at the finish, was a length and three-quarters ahead of the second Weld, which in turn led the second Newell by a quarter of a length of open water. The start was not made until one o'clock owing to the difficulty of securing a coxswain...
...giving more marked recognition to good scholarly work irrespective of pecuniary need. In other words, it is felt that the student in comfortable or well-to-do circumstances has been slighted, and he it is that needs the spur of competition,- if anything, more than the poorer man, whose scant means are a protection against the distractions to which others are liable. Now comes the Ricardo Fellowship to supplement the work which the prize funds have hitherto done alone, and it is to be hoped that the experiment will tend to make our best scholarship more truly democratic...