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Also, that Dr. J. Laurence Laughlin, whose active interest and energetic management has contributed so much to the success of the department in this and in past years, be continued therein...
...junior history of the class of '76 of Dartmouth College records the ingenious devices of a couple of students who wished to light the fires without rising to do it. A correspondent who sends us the following extracts vouches for the accuracy of the statements therein made: "Van. constructed during the winter an apparatus which connected an alarm clock with a system of weights and pulleys, and these again with his stove door, so that when the machine was wound up and properly adjusted it could, at the precise moment agreed upon, ring a bell, wind up a spool, drop...
...freest chance for exercise and sport, then it may justly be doubted whether the means justify the ends. Our colleges cannot afford to let all active interest and participation in athletics fall entirely into the hands of those who, by nature or special training, have come to excel therein. To excel is not our only aim; but to afford to the largest number the best chance for physical exercise and enjoyment in all our various games and sports. Tennis, lacrosse and all those sports in which men of comparatively little experience and skill can take part, are of value...
...were a Dr. Schleimann? if he had discovered an ancient city? and if that city were Homer's Troy? All these points he had denied at the time, but was soon obliged to recant. Within the Agora of Mycenae five tombs were opened, and the many golden ornaments found therein undoubtedly belong to the Heroic Age. The speaker thought that although Schleimann has not made the romantic discovery of the tombs of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra upon the hill at Hissarlik, yet he has made discoveries more important to archaeology. Out of its height of 112 feet, the real hill...
...legislature, yesterday, again refused to allow Cambridge to take water from the Shawsheen river. The Blackstone river and Worcester's interests therein were discussed at length...