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...sacrifice, and scored on second baseman's error. Harvard did not score again till the ninth inning when, with the score four to one against her, she made a desperate effort to retrieve the game. Dean led off with a long three bagger to right. Then Hallowell knocked a sky scraper to left field. It fell directly in the fielder's hands but he dropped it, and Dean came in. The crowd of spectators woke up and began to do some vigorous cheering. Hallowell took second on the throw in. Hovey and Trafford both hit to short; and their sacrifices...
...Aper has given a photographic telescope 8 inches per hour for use in Cambridge, where 2.157 photographs have been taken making a chart of the sky from the north pole to 20 degrees south of the equator. Spectrit of stars as faint as the tenth magnitude have been obtained and umerous is important results obtained. The most interesting result has been the discovery by Miss Maury of a second star, Beta Aurigael, which is shown by the doubling of the lines in its spectrum at regular intervals to be a close binary, revolving once in about four days. The study...
...wash room with a shower bath beyond. This room is far better than anything of the kind in the Gymnasium. Opposite this are two "Fives Courts" for hand ball. They are of a good size and extend to the top of the building, thus giving the advantage of a sky light. The floors are of cement and slope down, making the play lively. These courts are a great addition and have but one fault, which, however, is a great one. The walls are so constructed that it is almost impossible for one man to hear another unless he talks...
...playwright than is generally accorded him. "The Philosophy of a Modern Frenchman" starts out with the assertion that a Frenchman has no philosophy. The writer evidently counts all Frenchmen as of the school of Richepin and de Maupassant, earth-bound and with only a mud roof for sky...
...North Sea Watch is strikingly picturesque. A thousand spiritual expressions of shore, sea and sky enter it as well as the cry of human sorrow. It might have been written by a landscape painter, had any such the refined sentiment and deep feeling united with musical expression that Mr. Woodberry has. The North Shore Watch is a threnody for the young friend who died in '78, to whom the book is dedicated. All through the lament the final alexandrines surge and moan like the rhythmic ninth wave that beats upon every shore...