Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...meeting of the division of Ornithology and Mammalogy of the Natural History Society last evening, plans were completed for systematic study of the fauna and flora of the coutry about Cambridge. The observations of all the members of the society will be collected, with a view to possible publication of the animal and vegetable life of the environs of Cambridge. Special topographical maps of the region will be used by the members...
...forthcoming number of the Advocate contains four short stories, several verses and the usual complement of editorials and College Kodaks. The verses are all unpretentious and the chief interest in the number centres in the fiction. Of the four stories the most entertaining from a college point of view is "The Surprises of Sanders" by H. P. Huntress '99. The plot is rather improbable but there is just enough surprise in it to give it justification. Strange to say the real heroine of the tale plays a very small part, and the reader is left wondering why she was introduced...
...well illustrated by specially prepared maps. The gold mines are located and the conditions of life in all parts of Alaska discussed. The author, who is an authority on all subjects relating to our far west, is himself deeply interested in the land and writes from the point of view of a lover rather than of a casual observer of the region. The last part of the book is devoted to historical data about Alaska, a summary of the necessary articles of food and clothing for the traveller and gold-seeker, and a very complete bibliography of the subject...
Since Lieutenant Robinson expressed his opinion, that in view of the conditions then existing it was the duty of every young man to learn the tactics of military drill, developments have been many and important, and now this duty is manifest. Since then also, not only have many undergraduates already identified with military drill in the State militia, volunteered for the public service, but a number have enlisted as raw recruits. As individuals these are to be commended for their patriotic enthusiasm, but it seems possible that the mass of young college bred men can prove more useful if they...
...Belden Noble Series was delivered in Appleton Chapel last evening by the Rev. Henry van Dyke, D. D., of New York. Dr. van Dyke's subject was "Christ's Mission to the Inner Man," and the keynote of the lecture was an appeal to discard the dogmatic and superficial view of Christ's life and teaching...