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...biology, meteorology, geography, and economics. Military successes and failures in Europe have depended not so much on men as upon "the physical geography of Belgium and Eastern France." Napoleon was thwarted at Moscow by a rain storm, and while wars three centuries ago might have been waged over the wink of a courtesan's eye, "international rivalries today grow from a ceaseless struggle for natural resources". Students in the musical departments do not always remember that pleasing harmonies are based on mathematical calculations and that a change in temperature may throw organ pipes into discord...
...Novels" as the Professor of Political Economy), moved by the Ancient Dame's merry gesture, gave his "Canadian Ec.A." cuts for a month and thought audibly about "College Dormitories." To be sure, his tongue would persist almost suavely, in finding his cheek, and his left eye indulge its habitual wink, but for the greater part of two pages Professor Leacock voices irrefutable solemnities...
...recent lecture, Mr. Steffens charged that our courses are "too much in the past," that we painstakingly investigate the Vendee of '93, and wink at the Lawrence...
...dislike very much to give the same remedy over and over again and to repeat for the thousandth time the tale of disaster; the trouble is perfectly evident and must be clear even to the men who choose to wink at it. Another call will be madevery soon and we sincerely hope that something will move the freshman baseball men to a proper sense of their responsibility...
...back and to explain the cause of his absence. These rules have caused much unfavorable comment among the students, but this comment seems immature. The length of vacations is fixed, not by the faculty, but by the board of overseers. The faculty, therefore, have no right to wink at extensions of the recesses on the part of the students. At the meeting of the faculty, December 18, after listening to the report of a committee appointed specially to investigate this question, the matter of protracted vacations was discussed, and it was unanimously agreed that the length of recesses, as settled...