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...regards transportation, not only ships but all other methods of conveyance follow the courses allowed them by the geological formations which surround them. This is especially well illustrated by the frequency with which the railroads follow the course of the streams. And as the settlement and growth of a country depends to a great extent on transportation, so transportation depends entirely on the geological features of the country...
...band. Portions of fairyland have been brought along with them, so that every one can see precisely how the Brownies live, what they do from day to day, how they overcome trouble, and it will be especially interesting to note these first authentic views of real fairyland that will surround them...
...Thomas D. Lockwood, of the American Bell Telephone Co., will deliver an address under the auspices of the Electric Club, on "The progressive Evolution of the Telephone System of Today." The address, generally, will deal with the tendency shown by great advances in applied electricity to beget and surround themselves by numerous subsidiary appliances-as illustrated by the growth of telephonic communication...
...lead Harvard's baseball affairs this spring becomes again an open one. We believe that this resignation will be looked upon with regret by the students, but the matter is done and the thing nearest at hand now is the choice of a successor. The peculiar circumstances which surround our baseball interests today, the fact of the inexperience on 'varsity teams of the players, make it absolutely essential that the best man possible be chosen to succeed Mr. Cook. As everybody realizes, the prospect for the baseball season is very blue and it will take the most vigorous, clearheaded leadership...
...come to our knowledge from conversation with college officers that so far this year there has been practiclly no serious illness among the students and this speaks remarkably well, it seems to us, for the conditions of life which surround the students here in Cambridge. But there is not the same state of health in all the cities about us. In Boston there are at present several cases of smallpox, and one is reported in Somerville, and there is more or less of it all over the country. Just at this time, when college is about to close...