Harvard President Eliot Reports On Athletics And Louis Agassiz Tribute
Harvard President Eliot’s annual report notes reduced focus on sports amid concerns about overtraining and coaching control. It praises Louis Agassiz, detailing the museum’s growth, endowment, and influence on American science, with Fabyan’s $100,000 gift and remarks on faculty and student conduct.
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Eliot
Harvard
Wirot
Louis Agassiz
Harvard University
United States
Agassiz
Huot
Medical School
George F. Fabyan
Boston
Briggs
Dean Briggs
Alma
Elot
Nothing in It Jack I Went to the Phrenologist
A humorous exchange where Jack jokes about visiting a phrenologist. Maud asks what he learned. He says the examiner felt bumps coughed and refunded his money, leaving Jack with little concrete insight.
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Jack
Maud
Costumes For the New Year in The Ladies Journal
Isabel A. Mallon notes seafaring hosts and guests on festive days demand practical gowns. The trend favors pretty fitted frocks over tea gowns with moire fabrics, brocaded patterns, velvet accents, and black magpie tones. Soleil cloth emerges as a new, popular material. Lace and passementerie in jet and imitation gemstones embellish street and house gowns.
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Isabel A. Mallon
Ladies’ Home Journal
Fashion writer notes lavish accessories for variety in dress
A fashion writer describes how fanciful accessories add variety without major changes. Lavish neck trimmings mimic square necks or broad yokes with lace or chiffon frills, paired with high necked bodices. Ribbon straps, rossettes, and lace insertions form the pompadour collarette with decorative edge details.
Protective coloration in animals and field observations
The article discusses camouflage in North American grouse and parrots, noting how color blends with background. It cites Gregory’s Afghan travel notes on Colobus occidentalis whose striped fur helps hide it among lichen. It also observes bird calls and sex differences in songbirds and meat species.
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North America
Gregory
Great Rift Valley
Mr. Gregory
Substitutes for Glass Improve Plant Housing in Europe
A European survey reviews substitutes for glass used in horticulture and building. Tectorium is a tough translucent galv anized wire mesh with gelatinous coating that resists sun and cold and repairs easily. Fensterpappe is a cheap manilla paper saturated with boiled linseed oil for light frames. Hornglas, a newer patent, yields near transparency and weight savings while resisting sun softening. The report notes tradeoffs in durability and aesthetics versus glass.
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Rankfort
Hornglas
St. Louie
Brooklyn Habit of Clock Watching At City Hall
The New York Times notes Brooklyn residents still instinctively look toward the City Hall square for the time, even after the cupola clock was destroyed by fire. Railroads historically converged there, and the old town clock in the cupola influenced daily habits of the borough.
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Brooklyn
Williamsburg
City Hall
Early astronomy roots in towers and pyramids
The text notes that Babylonian towers and Egyptian pyramids likely served astronomical purposes. It cites Job’s time, about 2000 BC, mentioning constellations and stars such as Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades. Modern science is traced to Copernicus, Tycho, Brahe, and Newton.
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Babylon
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Cambridge
Mass
New Zealand
Europe
Philadelphia
Callowhill
Bill
Sixteenth Street
Jim
Philadelphia Record
W. A. Haynes & CO
Maynard, Mass
J. W. Henderson
N. B
W. Henderson
South Acton, Mass
T.F. Sheehan
Barrett’ S Mill Road
Concord Junction
Wood and Stone
Teremiah Sheehan
Josef Kulcsar
J. Kulcsar
Horace Tuttle
Walden Street
Concord
J.C. Friend
H. P. N. Dahl
Riverside Block
Ryan& Walsh
Basin Cocks
Boynton
Keith
Crockery
BOOTS
Tuttles, Jones & Wetherbee
South Acton
Ladies Victoria
Chains
H.p.n.dahl
Ernest Hosmer
D. D
Acton
Hapgood
Stow
W. A.cunningham
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