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...building which is to receive the telescope will be of stout stone walls, without windows, to protect the instrument against stray missiles in times of insurrection. The dome will be a light skeleton covered with canvas. The absence of frost and snow renders this possible...
...College Kodaks have been supplanted by "Atrabilia. Being stray leaves from the note book of a cynic who reformed on attaining his majority." The change in the name is interesting, but the ten "stray leaves" do not show any marked improvement over the Kodaks. Though none of them attempt to be humorous, several are very pleasing. The other prose articles are "Aunt Mary," by G. B. Philbrook, and two sketches by H. B. Eddy; one of the latter being an unnecessary contribution to the literature of Adam...
...number is unusually rich in fiction. Besides good installments of "Sweet Bells Out of Tune" and "Benefits Forgot" there are three or four interesting short stories, The Balcony Stories" the best of which is "The Miracle Chapel," "The Professor's Aberration" and others. A very interesting article is "Stray Leaves from a Whaleman's Log"; it is a collection of whaling stories with a description of the general methods of whaling. An article worthy of the attention of everyone is "A Voice of Russia" by Pierre Botkine, the secretary of the Russian Legation at Washington. In a few words...
...though the regular meetings are not announced in the calendar, the seminary work constantly done is of high grade. A continual comparison of the calendar with the corresponding numbers of previous years is more and more gratifying to a Harvard man as time goes. He watches the evolution of stray lectures into organized series and seminary meetings and realizes as he could not otherwise what work is being done here...
...publicity that can be given to it and we take this occasion of bringing it before the students. There is certainly enough open space at the disposition of players for them to carry on this exercise elsewhere than in the neighborhood of apparatus which may be damaged by stray balls. Moreover when the faculty has been so courteous as merely to call attention to the careless habit and leave the matter to be righted by student action, it is only right for the students to obey as promptly as if they were obliged...