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...last night and will probably be kept tonight for the fourth and last time. However, it is hardly expected that there will be a shower, as the orbit of the Leonids is too far from the earth--about one and three quarters million miles. Moreover, the number of Leonids seen has decreased since 1898; less were counted last year than then, and less this year than last...
...memory, and what memory does for experience--enabling us to retain it--photography may do for memory itself, by helping us to refresh the mental images we have there, which naturally are always fading away. Photography also enables us to get visual ideas of many things we have never seen because they are at a distance; and it will probably enable men in future to have correct visual images of things that will have disappeared from the world...
...second and third graded crews by 10 seconds, the first freshman crew by 15 seconds, and the fourth graded and second Freshman crews by 25 seconds. The race started so late in the afternoon that the course was too dark for the rowing of the various crews to be seen. They finished in the following order: First Freshman, first graded, second graded, fourth graded, second Freshman, third graded. The order of the winning crew was as follows: Stroke, Macomber (capt); 7, Minturn; 6, Thanisch; 5, Adams; 4, Lindsley; 3, Chadwick; 2, E. Krumbhaar; bow, G. Fairchild; cox., W. Swan...
...last night by the Rt. Rev. W. N. McVickar, D. D., of Providence, who spoke from the text: "But rise, and stand upon thy feet: for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness both of these things which thou hast seen, and of those things in the which I will appear unto thee." (Acts: 26; 16.) He said in part...
Through the liberality of Mr. E. W. Forbes '95 four more original works of art have just been added to the collection of the Fogg Museum, three of which are now to be seen on the wall of the upper gallery. They are; A painting in tempera on a gold ground by Benvenuto de Siena, representing the Madonna enthroned with saints; a painting in tempera attributed to Pinturicchio, of the Madonna and Child on a gold ground, and an oil painting of the Venetian School representing the Madonna and Child with the Infant St. John. The first of these...