Word: shorts
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...must be thoroughly familiar with his subject and must believe firmly in what he says. Important aids to essentials are clearness of expression and brevity of statement, the one because all truth is self-evident, and needs only to be stated clearly to be convincing, and the other because short and pithy statements are more apt to be remembered. The final test of the effective speaker, is that he must impress his subject upon the audience and not his own personality...
Plans are being made to publish the Senior Class Album this year about June 1. Work on the engraving has begun, and can be delayed only a short time longer for the men listed below, who have not yet arranged for their sittings. In order to have the album complete the following men are urged to have their sittings at once: R. W. Aldrich, H. W. Bell, Benshimol, Birnie, Burton, Caldwell, Colwell, J. G. Fletcher, Friend, Goodale, Gunther, N. L. Hall. 1907 PHOTOGRAPH COMMITTEE...
...ZOOLOGICAL CLUB. Short papers. Zoological Laboratories, Fourth floor, M. Z., room...
...advantages of this policy are represented in the current number by a set of short but extremely interesting articles on the planet Mars by four eminent men of science. Professor W. H. Pickering, whose portrait forms the frontispiece, contributes a compact descriptive article on Mars and its canals, the effect of which is curiously modified by Professor A. E. Douglass of the University of Arizona, who explains away most of the canals by giving them a psychological origin in the sensory apparatus of the observer. Professor E. S. Morse writes interestingly of "What the Martians Might Say of Us," reversing...
Yesterday afternoon the Freshman crew went out on the river for the first time this season. The crew used an old barge, which they boarded from the shore near the Newell Boat Club. In spite of the floating ice in the river, they rowed a short distance above the Boylston street bridge and back. Considering the fact that it was the first day on the river, the work was very encouraging...