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...leads to the discovery of more variable stars here than in any other place, as the Harvard Observatory is the only one which uses this system. The ordinary way of finding variable stars is by watching each night to see if they change in brightness. As yet no star, whose spectrum has hydrogen rings, has proved to be other than a variable...
Contemptible and criminal as such an act is, more lasting harm has been done to the reputation of the University by the sensational stories that have appeared in the Boston newspapers concerning it. The correspondents for most of these papers are Harvard men, whose loyalty to their college should be strong enough to keep them from writing columns of wretchedly sensational stuff on every offense that is committed in the University. That the Boston papers are willing to print such ineffable twaddle in order to cater to the depraved tastes of some of their readers, is bad enough; that Harvard...
...poet." The lecturer said he would not discuss the poetic value of Whitman's work; he wished merely to show his thoughts. The central point of Whitman's poetry seems to have been the significance of individual existence. He looks on every man as a separate personality, whose place neither in time nor eternity can any other take. This presupposes a peculiar view of human nature. We are used to contrasting the littleness of self with the greatness of nature. Whitman stands at ease before nature, which he holds is only to serve man's purposes...
...colleges. A similar arrangement was made last year with the New England Associated Press, which had to be given up at the beginning of the present year owing to objections made by one of the Boston dailies. Now, however, an arrangement has been effected with the general Associated Press, whose system extends over every part of the country. From now on we will publish regular dispatches containing the latest news from the colleges...
...protection of her children from evil.- (2) This instinct may be trusted to vote.- (x) in the interests of the family, for good public education, improved sanitary conditions, the reduction to a minimum of evils involved in saloons, brothels, and gambling houses,- (y) against public officers by whose maladministration, families are reduced by disease, left in ignorance and corrupted by immorality...