1895-] The Properties of the Carbide of Calcium, H. D. Wishart, Wells’ Tannery. A Study of Two-phases Stanley-Kelley-Chesney Induction Motor, W. A. Harvey (with Kiefer), Scranton. Some new Bromine Compounds of Metaxylene, Miss M. B. MacDonald, State College. The following excellent little poem appeared in a recent issue of the Youth's Companion: Oh, is there not a moment, As seasons come and go; One mad and blissful moment Without its thought of woe-- Its hint of winter’s snow ? We congratulate the Free Dance on its change in form. The May number contains some well written articles. Its aim to be strictly a ‘ ‘ student organ ’ ’ might well be imitated by all college journals.— F. & M. College Student. The Free Dance has a good literary department. The article by Dr. Atherton in tlie April number was of special merit. — Mer cersburg Monthly. Harvard bests Yale in debate as regularly as Yale bests Harvard in boating and football; but Yale used to be, and probably still is, a much more fruitful mother of successful politicians than Har vard is. Are'we to argue from this'that' 'the ability to buck the centre is 'more useful in American politics than the power of forcible debate ? — Harper's Weekly. Clippings, CDIPPINGS. June Snow, June winds ye set me sighing When songs of joy should flow, Ye're white with apple blossoms ■ And that recalls the snow— December’s dreary snow. 'file year is at its maddest, Yet all the winds that blow Are white with whirling snowflakes; 'file ground is white below, As if with early sii'otvV —Fred Lewis Pattee.
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