Word: various
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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December's Outing opens with a fresh and interesting article on Sport. It deals mainly with shooting around the Potomac and abounds with anecdotes of that region. There follows an article on the Detroit Athletic Club, giving the positions of the various athletes in their respective branches. It also gives a description of the club-house, one of the finest in the country...
...already proved that it is no longer the feeble, lifeless society of past years, and the new enterprise which it has undertaken shows that its energy is not yet exhausted. The society has now arranged to have books reserved at the library for convenience of reference upon the various topics of debate. Several shelves in the alcove of the English department in the reading room are assigned to the Union, and as soon as each subject for debate is announced the leading books and magazine articles relating to the question will be collected there. In this way everyone will...
...have a suggestion to make to the library authorities. The various American and English magazines and reviews play an important part in the forensic, special report, and debating courses here, especially where the topics chose have reference to modern legislation, political economy, literature, and other questions of the day. The library now takes but one copy of each of these magazines, and allows them to be kept out for one week. It has often happened that students are thus deprived of the use of these magazines for several weeks at a time, and changes in topics have not infrequently been...
...illustrate what may be expected from excavation at new points, and the large number of cuneiform tablets unearthed last winter in Egypt give us a new sense of the prominence of the Assyrian language for international communication in very early times. The natives of Babylonia are always digging at various points in a desultory way and find a profit in the sale of the tablets found, of whose literary value they have no conception. Many of these tablets find their way to Europe and some of them come to America...
...twenty miles long; it will also be visible as a sunset phenomenon in Canada near Lake Superior, and as a partial eclipse as far east as New York. Owing to the wide range of country from which the eclipse is visible an excellent chance is offered to solve various problems concerning the sun's course and the amount and intensity of the light emitted under the given conditions...