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...Optics and Acoustics. What we think is needed here are into courses in Technical Astronomu, but a popular course, with little or no mathematics, on the same plan as some of the elementary courses in Natural History, notably N. H. 4. It is really pitiful to see the woeful ignorance of college men on subjects girl would be ashamed to confess her ignorance. Yet in Astronomy, a subject which should be familiar to every one, we are all practically unable to gain even the slightest knowledge, although our facilities for observation are unsurpassed, in this country at least...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/21/1885 | See Source »

...regards the general play of the eleven, it must be said that there is a woeful want of carefulness. It is the rule, not the exception, for the University to lose the ball when they get it within the college's 25-yard line. There are several reasons for this, to wit; the college understands their plays nearly as well as they do themselves, and then, again, there are five or six rushers who are always unguarded. These excuses are urgent; but yet we must admit that the misplays are oftener due to the inaccurate passing or the inability...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Yale Eleven. | 11/7/1884 | See Source »

...successive presiding officers at the '88 class meeting last night showed a woeful ignorance of Cushing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 10/2/1884 | See Source »

...woeful look I smiled...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANACREONTIC. | 5/31/1878 | See Source »

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