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...average college class room is replaced by Brussels carpets; and cane-bottomed chairs are substituted for hard wooden seats. All the works in the university on philology are collected together in this one building. The student then has everything at his elbow. In the seminary library there are one thousand volumes, and in Professor Gildersleeve's study at least two thousand five hundred. There are not only the Greek and Latin authors in this collection, but nearly every production of every commentator upon certain classical authors. Professor Gildersleeve has been an omniverous reader ever since...
...Completing the work of the small meridian photometer. During three years this instrument has been used in measuring the light of all the stars visible to the naked eye. There have been nearly a hundred thousand of these measurements, being the largest piece of photometric work ever accomplished. A large instrument of the same form has been constructed, and, with it, it is proposed to examine and determine the light of some nine thousand stars...
...glorious university, completely organized and equipped to afford an education such as the future man will be given. It looks not at all like Oxford or Cambridge, or even like Harvard. It looks more like a factory village situated in the midst of a finely cultivated farm of one thousand acres, with beautiful gardens and parks, the whole the centre of a thriving industry such as our factory villages might be, must be, shall and are just going to be, for man will not long be the submissive vassal that...
...direct to the gates. The grounds cost $21,000. They will contain several large buildings for bath and dressing rooms, fitted up with all conveniences, a quarter-mile track, lawn tennis courts, base-ball, foot-ball, lacrosse and cricket grounds. There will also be a grand stand accommodating one thousand spectators, which will be erected at a cost of $5000. Yale is to be congratulated on her good fortune...
...disgust of the several thousand spectators during the ninth inning beggars description. Hall went to the bat, and Hopkins was retired by a beautiful hot line catch by Coolidge. He was immediately followed by Hubbard, who knocked a grounder to Coolidge, and who was put out on first. The score now stood 4 to 2 in favor of the crimson, with two Yale men out and no one on base. Wilcox stepped to the bat and got his base on seven balls. Camp knocked a grounder to Le Moyne, who picked it up very prettily. The enthusiasm of Harvard...