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THE TECH.Published on alternate Wednesdays, during the school year, by the

students of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS, 183-4.

E. W. TYLER, '84, Pre8. WALTER H. BUNCE, '84.I. W. LITCHFIELD, '85, Sec. A. R. McKIM, '85.W. H. CHADBOURN, '86, Treas. H. C. SPAULDING, '87.

EDITORS.

C. STANLEY ROBINSON, '85, Editor in Chief.A. LAWRENCE ROTCH, '84. CHARLES F. SPRING, '85.T. H. BARTLETT, '84. J. G. HOWARD, '86.THOMAS W. FRY, '85. xV. Rt. INGALLS, '86.

E. A. HIASKELL, '87.I. W. LITRCHFIELD, Gen'l Adv. Agt.

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ers or not. The club was organized last fall, andafter some rehearsing gave a complimentary con-cert to the school, which was much appreciatedby all who had the opportunity to hear it. Sincethen, the club has sung in various places in thevicinity, and was everywhere received with favor.We are now to have another chance of hearingthem at home. A concert will shortly be givenin Association Hall, for which the tickets arenow ready. Reserved seats can be procuredfrom the musical director, and admission ticketsfrom other members of the club. The price oftickets has been placed so low that it is withinthe reach of all, and we hope that all will avail

themselves of this privilege of hearing a goodconcert and helping support a worthy organiza-tion. The club is at considerable expense inprocuring new music and other necessarythings, and a good attendance at the next con-cert will do much to strengthen its financialcondition. Let every student go to the concert,and give the club a good reception at home.

A T the present time the country is excitedby reports of gold found in enormous

quantities at the Coeur d'Alenes, in Idaho, andas a consequence there has been an immediaterush of seekers for gold to that region. No au-thentic information has yet been received as tothe extent or richness of the placer diggings;but that gold exists there along the streams isunquestionable. The Eastern imagination isapt to be taken with reports of yields of twelveto twenty dollars a day to each man; of wages, toany one who will work, of from five to eightdollars per day; of the reported aggregate of

i 8,ooo worth of dust taken from one claim, the"Widow," and at once thinks it the place to goto, without duly weighing the other side of thequestion; the presence of a multitude alreadythere, most of them old miners, who, perhaps, cuttheir wisdom teeth in California, and besidewhom one's chances for gaining experiencewould be vast, but his chances of getting goldat their minimum. The cost of the bare neces-sities of living is enormous, and if one desiredto make money his wiser way would be to goout there as a seller of "eggs, bacon, and boots,"which command a premium.

The gold fever of '49 is beyond the memoryof most of our miners, to whom this is especiallyaddressed; but the recollection of personal ex-periences told to the writer conies vividly tomind. One hears more often, in cases of greatdiscoveries of gold, of rich findings in specialinstance; but of the thousands who are unsuc-

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cessful whose lives are ruined by the absence.of any sort of restraint, and the prevalence ofthe worst features of men's characters, of themisery brought upon the mothers and familiesleft behind, we hear only by accident, or in thehistory of after years.

A few weeks will do much to solve the prob-lem, and gold will be plentiful, or the locality bevoted a failure; in the latter case, an unde-served odium will remain with the place. Ofthe crowds which have flocked thither, manywill never come East again: attracted by theeasy life in the West, they cut their mooringsand start, probably, upon a life of adventure.

T is with regret that we are obliged to notethe recent disturbances in the chemical labo-

ratory among the second-year miners and chem-ists, which resulted in the suspension of someof their members. The course of Prof. Wing incalling a class meeting at which the memberswere free to express their' opinions in regard tothe matter, and leaving the remedy to their goodjudgment and honor, is one which must meetwith the heartiest commendation, and which wehope will be adopted by our other professors ifany trouble happens to arise in their classes.

FOR the benefit of those interested, it maybe stated that exchanges are placed in

binders shortly after their receipt, and as a ruleonly the la' est two numbers are kept there.Earlier issues for this year may be obtained inTHE TECH bookcase. It is desirable that any ofthese taken out be returned to their properplaces, otherwise this use of them may be dis-continued.

N an editorial in the last TECI, in regard tothe cost of underground wires. we were made

to say that "the cost ... would be.... . for thecables, about $I50 per mile; so that, in roundnumbers, we may say that one thousand mileswould cost $I 50,000 per mile, or $ X 5o a mile foreach circuit." The correct statement is that, inround numbers, the cost would be about $150,-ooo per mile for one thousand wires, or $ 150 permile for each circuit.

Papyrographs.

THE morning light was breaking fastAs " notes '? in piles before him massed;A youth toiled on with weary eyes,And muttered low, " How I despise

Papyrographs !"

His task was hard; all night dismayedHe 'd sought to catch th' idea conveyedBy purple page from stencil poor,-But still he groaned, " I can't endure

Papyrographs!"

A student deaf to every sound,Half buried 'neath his "1 notes " was found,Low gasping, " Welcome, heavenly prize!I ne'er shall see in Paradise

Papyrographs! " F.

The Study of the Natural Sciences.A PAPER READ BEFORE THE 2 G SOCIETY.

THERE is an impression among the majorityI of people that Science is something dark,

deep, hidden, and abstruse. In fact, manybelieve that the very word science indicatessomething unfathomable, something that can-not be comprehended by ordinary people. Somebelieve that science is allied to alchemy, astrol-ogy, or witchcraft, and that knowledge of it isto be shunned as one would shun the plague orother loathsome disease. Some believe that itis synonymous with atheism, infidelity, andgodlessness. But it is none of these. One ofthe brightest scientific lights of the nineteenthcentury has given one of the most expresswvedefinitions of science that could be given. Hesays, "Science, I believe, is nothing but trainedand organized commoni-sense."

It is of the natural sciences that we wish tospeak to night. Natural science is the knowl-edge of the laws governing the forces of nature.

Nature is a term employed to signify all thebodies of the universe collectively. Thesebodies, organic andinorganic, are subject to avariety of changes. The agents or causes ofthese changes may be either internal or exter-nal to the bodies. It is the object of naturalscience to investigate nature with reference tothese changes and their causes.

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'"All the phenomena of the physical worldarise directly from the action of forces upon thevarious forms of bodies."

It is the province of natural science to inquireinto these phenomena, and, if possible, to formu-late the laws which govern both the causes andeffects.

For its data in reference to these causes andeffects, science relies upon observation and ex-periment.

By observation we note any changes that takeplace in the conditions or relations of any bodyor its elements, as they spontaneously arisewithout any interference on our'part; whereas,in the performance of an experiment, we pur-posely alter the natural arrangement of thingsto produce the result that we desire.

Thus, if we notice that in winter waterbecomes converted into ice, we are said to makean observation; if, by the use of freezing mix-tures or rapid evaporation we produce ice fromwater, we are then said to perform an experi-ment.

Similarly, if we balance a compass-needleupon the sharp point of a fixed vertical rod,and note that the marked end always pointstowards the north, we have made an observa-tion. But if we balance a small steel bar uponthe pivot, and find that it stands in any positionin which we place it, and then remove it, mag-netize it, and, upon replacing it, find that itrotates until the marked end indicates the northpoint, as in the first case, we are said to havemade a series of observations, performed anexperiment, and then made a final observationwhich confirmed our hypothesis that the barwould align itself in a north and south line aftermagnetization.

These observations and experiments are nextsubjected to mathematical analysis and calcula-tion, from which are deduced what are known as"the laws of nature," or "the rules that likecauses will invariably produce like results."Where possible, these laws, for the sake of brev-ity, are expressed by mathematical formule.

When, however, these laws are not deter-mined with sufficient exactness to admit of

their being expressed with mathematical precis-ion, we must be content with inferences andassumptions based upon analogies, or with prob-able hypotheses for explanation and deduction."An hypothesis gains in probability the morenearly it accords with the ordinary course ofnature, the more numerous the observationsand experiments on which it is founded, and themore simple the explanation it offers of thephenomena for which it is intended to account."If the number and range of these observationsbe sufficiently great, and the explanation of theobserved phenomena be logical and reasonable,the hypothesis may attain to the dignity of a"thelOcy."

If no exceptions can be detected or dis-covered in the phenomena which attend theaction of certain forces, and the scientist isenabled to predict with certainty the logicalsequence of events which will take place due tothe action of these forces together with all theattendant phenomena directly dependent uponsaid action, then the theory is entitled to be re-moved from the realm of probability and to berecorded as one of the laws of nature.

The field of observation is indeed a large one.For convenience, I shall divide it into threeheads, conscious, however, that the lines ofdemarcation are so convoluted and interlockedthat they must be but arbitrary at best.

Actual observation may be (I) telescopic, (2)

macroscopic, or (3) microscopic. (i.) Tele-scopic observation enables us to penetrate thedepths of space in search of truth, to exploremysteries which but for its intervention wouldhave remained locked in the bosom of space un-known and unseen by the eye of man. Whoshall estimate the value of the telescope toscience ?

To adequately chronicle its discoveries, theirnumber, importance, and value would requirevolumes. Let it suffice to direct attention to afew of its best known results.

It was to the use of the crude and imperfectinstrument of Galileo that we owe the discoveryof the sun spots, the mountains in the moon,and the existence of Jupiter's satellites. From

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this humble beginning astronomical science hasslowly but surely advanced, until now her in-struments of precision have reached a highdegree of excellence. To these advances weowe the discovery of the nebulae, those nas-cent worlds of dissociated star-dust, whoseatoms are whirling through their molecularorbits in obedience to the universal law of grav-itation.

To telescopes we owe the discovery of themagnificent group of rings and satellites thataccompany the planet Saturn in his orbit aroundthe sun.

The same instrument detected the planetsNeptune and Uranus with their faint satellites,together with the numerous minor planets. Toit we are indebted for the discovery of double,triple, and multiple stars. Many double starsexhibit the curious and beautiful phenomenonof complementary colors. In these instances"the large star is usually of a ruddy or orangehue, and the smaller one of blue or green."This may be but the effect of contrast, butthere is no reason to doubt that in many casescolor exists.

The latest great discovery made by astronom-ical science was that of the diminutive moonsof the planet Mars, that near physical relativeof our earth.

These interesting objects were made knownto the inquiring gaze of man through the me-dium of the great equatorial refractor at Wash-ington. Thus have we glanced at a few of theresults of telescopic observation. Thus, throughthe evolution and development of this potent in-strument for fathoming, feebly it is true, thedepths of inter-stellar space, have we succeededin wresting from that boundless infinity manythings which but for it would still be en-shrouded by an unpenetrated veil. Thus, inless than three centuries, have we passed fromthe imperfect and insignificant glass of the Ital-ian astronomer to the magnificent refractor atWashington, whose definition and space-pene-trating power exceeds even the wildest dreamsof the seventeenth-century philosophers.

May we not congratulate ourselves that this

triumph of mechanical art, this crowning gloryof astronomical and optical science, was madeupon the sacred soil of the Commonwealth ofMassachusetts ?

(2.) Macroscopic observation comprehendsall observations of the outward or visible worldmade by the human eye. It is the means bywhich a knowledge of the objects surroundingus is obtained. It is the most general kind ofobservation with which we are acquainted. Itis a term borrowed from the science of petrog-raphy, and is here used to comprise all visualobservations that are not either telescopic ormicroscopic. It is essentially the observationmost used in our every-day life. It enables usto see and enjoy our friends, our homes, ourlandscapes, and our skies. This method is em-ployed by the infant and the patriarch, the ploughboy and the philosopher, the ignorant and theenlightened, the untutored savage and the cul-tured denizen of the metropolis. It was in useuntold centuries before the invention of eithertelescopes or microscopes. Through it many ofthe phenomena of the organic and physicalworlds have been brought to the notice of themind of man, without, however, eliciting ra-tional, or, in many instances, even intelligibleinterpretations. By it wve distinguish the dif-ference between an animal and a plant, be-tween a rock and an apple, between daylightand darkness, between the lightning's flash andthe gleam of a candle.

(To be continued.)

Winter Weather in Boston.

HERE is no subject on which people thinkthey can speak with more authority than

that of the weather. As a case in point, let ustake the past winter, which is popularly sup-posed to have been a very cold one. Let ustest the statement by reference to the recordsof the United States Signal Office in this city,copies of which the writer has at hand.

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the mean for these same months was 29.2°. Ifwe compare the months separately, we shall findthat last December was I. I ° colder, January 2.8°

colder, February 3.0 ° warmer, and March 0.9 °

colder than the normals for those months. Itmay be said, incidentally, that January is ordi-narily our coldest month, having a mean tem-perature of 26.5 °. The above shows that thecold has been nearly that of an average Bostonwinter. If we take the extremes of temperaturewe shall also see that no records have beenbroken, though it is true that the minimumtemperature is within a degree of the lowestobserved since the establishment of the SignalOffice. The lowest temperature during thesethirteen years was-1I 3° in January, I 882, and the.highest during the four cold months of the sameperiod was 72' in March, I88o. This winter theminimum was - I 2° in December, and the maxi-mum 60.5° in March.

Let us also examine the precipitation as amatter of interest. The snow fall at the SignalOffice is measured as water, ten or twelve inchesof snow being equivalent to an inch of rain.The average amount of snow and rain for thetime before mentioned is I6.40 inches. For thesame months of the past winter the total is20.58 inches, which is a very large excess. Gen-erally the wettest winter month is March, withan average of 5.I9 inches; but this year thegreatest precipitation, 6.27 inches, occurred inJanuary.

A feature of the past winter was the extremelylow barometer which occurred in February. Acorrected reading of 28.979 inches was obtained,and this has only once been exceeded since I187 t.This great barometric depression was not at-tended by a storm of corresponding severity.The greatest velocity of the wind was 48 milesan hour from the southeast in January, which isunusually high, though for a short time it is saidthat a velocity of 72 miles an hour has been re-corded here.

One marked characteristic of the winter, andone which everybody has complained of, hasbeen the great number of gloomy days. Thus,during the month of February, there were I8

cloudy clays, IO fair days, and but I clear day,while rain or snow fell on 20 days. It is alsostated that out of I97 days since September I,there had been 105 stormy days and only 45 clearones. Thus it seems that the winter of I883-84 may be not inappropriately called the "DarkWinter."

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Daniel Pratt.

T HE illustrious Daniel Pratt, that famousorator, poet, and philosopher, has been

once more in our midst. His late lecture on"Evolution, Revolution, and Poetry, or the Im-mutable Circumlocution of Scientific Volubility,"has attracted much attention from the press,and an intelligent public impatiently waits forthe new edition of his "Poems 'a la RhapsodieChelseanea." By special favor we have beenallowed to transcribe a few choice selections forthe readers of THE TECH, for whom the gallantgeneral has still a feeling "sui generis." Thefirst lines are replete with a hidden sentimentof melancholy:-

"Some years ago, - an hundred, more or less, -When Prattville, Chelsea, was a wilderness,When Woodlawn Graveyard was a pasture shade,Its virgin soil unbroken by pick or spade,"Great Daniel Pratt was born !

Space will not permit us to trace all themeanderings of genius in his life, and we passrapidly to a point where he is compared to

"Susan B. Anthony, Mrs. Lucy Stone,Old Horace Greeley, or the 'favorite son,'Richard the Third, or Richard, I)uke of York,The Witch of Endor, and Joan of Arc."

We heartily concur in the sentiment expressedin the closing "feet" that

"A grateful country will record his nameIn golden letters on the scroll of fame."

We cannot leave this inspiring subject with-out submitting with pride the following tributeto THE TEcH, which fell, or rather walked, offthe end of Gen. Pratt's pen: -

A BRIEF TRIBUTE To THE TECIT.

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and it is Destined to command the Notice ofthe Press and Educated World genius andLogic will Tell like the Sun over 1500 000 000people in Europe, Asia Africa and America.increase of population 500oo ooo ooo people in thelast I oo00 years. Over 3000 languages spoken inthe world; the English Language is spreadingwith Great Rapidity. The Soil and Mind ofman are not one millionth part developed intoaxioms and Maxioms !

DANIEL PRATT

The Great Amzesrican TravcllEr.

ahmmxninatation..[ The Editors do not hold themselves responsible for opinions

expresied by corres5zondents.]

To THE EDITOR OF THE TECH: - In a recentnumber of THE TECH appeared an article advo-cating the extension of the course at the Insti-tute to six years. While coinciding with thesentiments inspiring this article, the writerwishes to disagree with this proposal.

The work done at the Institute is too severe.For a student pursuing his studies faithfully,the mental strain approaches, perhaps exceeds,the intellectual elastic limit. To reduce the highstandard of resultant excellence is a remedywhich will find no favor among the alumni,although to many a mind a long step in thisdirection was taken when Prof. Howison severedconnection with the school.

Of the more recent changes in the engineer-ing departments, it is a pleasure to say that theymeet the approval of the large majority of thegraduates.

It is an easy solution of the difficulty to say thecourse should be extended; but we must considerthat this step will necessarily increase, almostproportionately, the expense to be incurred bythe student. Unfortunately, to a great numberof the patrons of the Institute, the annualbudget is an element inspiring most rigid cal-culation, and an increase of twenty-five percent in the outlay would cause the relin-quishment of the scheme of education by a

class of persons among whom will always be.found the best students of the Institute.

The scheme which the writer would propose isthat which has always been thie idea of the cor-poration, to exalt the requirements necessaryfor admittance.

Ten years ago, - and the conditions havechanged little since, -a boy of fifteen who hadfaithfully pursued his studies in the publicschools and who had only partially completedhis high-school course, was fitted,- we will notsay for the Institute,- but to pass its entranceexaminations and could have studied for threeyears Latin or Greek.

How soon the same boy could have beenfitted by the narrow and mistaken method of pre-paratory schools the writer does not venture toestimate; but he will assert,- and in the opinionis sustained by every graduate with whom heever conversed, - that no boy at the age of fif-teen or sixteen is fitted physically or intellectuallyfor that philosophical, mathematical, imagina-tive, and speculative hothouse known as theInstitute of Technology.

The studies at the Institute should beginwhere our public free schools stop. Theseschools, it is true, gi've as a rule only a superficialknowledge of the many subjects they pretend toteach, but every student knows that the mostelementary knowledge of a subject taken up atthe Institute is the saving condition whichoftentimes determines his success. For thisreason the writer would advocate an examinationon German, trigonometry, physics, astronomy,physiology, zo6logy, botany, geology, chemistry,and physical geography.

Proficiency in any seven of these might makeup for ignorance of the remainder, as the extraknowledge possessed would allow some sparetime on one subject which could be devoted tothose in which a deficiency existed.

It is almost a safe assertion to make that, ofthose graduating from the Institute with acreditable record, eighty per cent come to theschool possessing the knowledge embraced inthe above specifications, and that this knowledgewas an important factor in their success. If

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this is true, the admittance examinations to theInstitute may be styled a system of false pre-tence, enticingb to the school numbers of per-sons who cannot succeed unless by neglectingall rules of physical and mental hygiene.

In addition to these qualifications, a betterknowledge of French might be required, and anacquaintance with Latin or Greek, while notperhaps to be insisted upon, might be placed tothe credit of the applicant.

WVith these requirements, and the minimumage placed at seventeen, it is to be hoped that ashigh a grade would be reached and less fall bythe wayside. Primary-school education at theInstitute would cease and the "Kindergarten"be no more.

If any are in doubt as to the bearing of thislast observation, let them reflect upon the follow-ing item of history: -

Prof. (to Sophmnore class): "Gentlemen, thiscolored map before you is known as Guyot'smap. The mountains are colored a dark brown,the tops being touched with white to representsnow. The lower levels are colored a lighterbrown and the lowest lands of all around thecoast and elsewhere are tinted green.

"This part to which I point, gentlemen, isgreen. Is this high or low land ?

Let it be said in simple justice to the memoryof the class of '79 that with one accord theyanswered " high !"

It seems as if it could be in this way only thatthe school can keep that proud position whiclh ithas occupied in the past and which it shouldalways strive to surpass. H. H. C.

Steelton, Pa., MIarch 23, IS84.

At Princeton, there has been great excite-ment over a fanciful system of espionage, sup-posed to have been undertaken by the collegeauthorities. The matter as stated in the col-lege lMercziuy is thus: " At Princeton, therehas also been great excitement, and, though theresults to individuals is not as disastrous, theharm to the collge is almost as serious. Onemorning the students found a letter in theirpost-office boxes calling their attention to the

methods employed by the Faculty in disciplin-ing those whom they governed. A mass meet-ing was held and many serious charges weremade against the dean of the Faculty andagainst a certain professor. A system ofespionage, it was claimed, was employed. Manymen weepingly asserted that their poker deckshad been stolen from them, that brakemen onthe Trenton trains had been questioned on manypoints, and that the town barber had turnedcollege informer. As befits mass meeting, res-olutions were drawn up and a committee ofinvestigation appointed. Everything was pre-pared for a genuine sensation, when the studentwho had made the most serious accusation'crawled' (as the Princeton man would say),the owners of the poker decks said that theymight be in error as to the disappearance of thesame, and every one else acknowledged the pos-sibility of his being mistaken."

PHOSPHORESCENCE IN LIMESTONES. -A good

example of phosphorescence in limestone wasseen recently in a specimen from Utah, whichemitted a lurid red light when struck, scratched,or heated. The glow lasted from half a second,when lightly struck, to a much longer time, asthe result of a blow. The specimen, on exami-nation, proved to be almost perfectly pure car-bonate of lime with very slight percentage ofimpurities. It was loose grained, white, andcrystalline, the grains being but slightly coherent,and much resembled a soft sandstone. Itcrumbled easily between the fingers, forming acoarse sand. When heated in a glass tube overa flame, it glowed with a deep red light, whichlasted a minute or more after withdrawing theflame. After two or three heatings the phos-phorescent property disappears. Correspondingeffects were produced after examination ofnumerous specimens from a limestone fromIndia, which also resembled externally the Utahstone. In each case the phenomena are proba-bly due to a disturbance of the loosely aggre-gated crystalline particles, whether such be pro-dluced by percus,ion, friction, heat, or decrepita-tion.

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Noticeable Articles.NINETEENTH CENTURY, March.-- " My School Days

from 1830 to I840," by the Dean of Westminster. A verypleasant paper by the successor of Dean Stanley, Dr.Bradley, formerly head master of Marlborough, one ofthe great schools of England. The youngsters of to-day may thank their stars that the world moves, evenin matters educational. " Everything was learnt byrote," he says of his first school. The lists of kings ofEngland, of the metals, and of the planets were repeatedone after another without interest and without discrimina-tion. I really think that we might almost without reproofhave substituted any one for the other. This remindsone of little Paul Dombey to whom ' Whether twentyRomuluses made a Remus, or hic, hke, ,/oc was Troyweighlt, or a verb always agreed with an ancient Briton,or three times four was Taurus, a bull, were open ques-tions." Dr. Bradley himself was no such teacher; andthe paper is full of capital suggestions about educationand self-education.

CONTEMPORARY, March. - " Frederick Denison Mau-rice," by Rev. J. L. Davis. A notice of the recently pub-lished life of a good man, who would have been canon-ized as a saint if he had lived in the Middle Ages.

"The Amusements of the People," by Walter Besant.Read Mr. Besant's very pleasant novel, " All Sorts andConditions of Men," in which these ideas are supposedto be carried out in a poor district in the West End ofLondon by a delightful heiress in the disguise of a mil-liner.

THE CFNTURY, April. -" The White House," illus.trated.

HARPERS', April. -"A Lover's Pilgrinmage" (toVerona), illustrated.

' The Hohenzollerns," illustrated with portraits." Modern Sanitary Engineering, by W. P. Trowbridge.The frontispiece this month, a bust of Murillo's

Immaculate Conception in the Louvre, is a very beautifulpiece of engraving.

MACMIILLAN'S, March. -" James Hope-Scott," by SirFrancis Doyle, a lively account of the Roman Catholichusband of Sir Walter Scott's grand-daughter and heiressof Abbotsford.

" A Social Study of Our Oldest Colony," i. e., Virginia.W. P. A.

We have received Outing, for April, which isnow beginning its fourth volume. The presentnumber confirms our hitherto good opinion ofthe magazine, and is well worth reading. Thepublication of an English edition of Ozuting isbegun ,vith this number under most favorableauspices, and we prophesy a brilliant future forit.

Go to the Glee Club Concert.Last week was a good example of New Eng-

land weather.Mr. David Van Alstine, '86, has been elected

a member of Sigma Chi.Several Institute men are rehearsing with the

Wagner Festival Chorus.We are sometimes surprised at the amount of

musical and th/eatrical talent at the Institute.Only five weeks more before the annuals.

Now is the time to " grind."The first-year architects are revelling in their

now problem of a temple-tomb.The 2 G Society held its regular meeting on

Tuesday, the 8th, when important business wastransacted.

Prof. Vose has been elected president of theBoston Society of Civil Engineers for the ensu-ing year.

The second-year civils and miners have beguntheir spring field work, levelling.

We learn with great regret that Mr. HerbertG. Pratt, '85, has been obliged to abandon hisstudies and to go South for recreation.

A quartet of stringed instruments with pianoaccompaniment is rehearsing for the next meet-ing of the Junior cla5s.

Quite a large delegation from the Institutewere present at the casting of the second largegun at the South Boston foundry.

President Walker is prominently mentionedas a delegate to the Republican National Con-vention at Chicago.

At our recent athletic games, Mr. P. R.Fletcher put the shot a distance of thirty-threefeet seven inches, breaking the record for ourgymnasium. Thirty-three feet six inches wasthe score at the last Harvard games.

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"If it were not for evolution and revolutionthere would be no molecules." - Gen. DanielPratt.

Photographs of the '86 tug-of-war team, whichdefeated the Harvard Law School team at ourlast games, can be obtained of Mr. Shove, '86.

The bad weather of last week prevented theminers' and chemists' excursion to Fitchburgand the bicycle club's run on Fast Day.

The Institute Chapter of Sigma Chi held itsanniversary dinner at Young's on Friday,March 2 r. Thirteen members were present.

The second-year mechanicals recently spentan interesting afternoon in examining the loomsof the weaving department of the School ofDesign.

The certificates of membership for the 2 GSociety are interesting looking documents. Theseal is about two inches in diameter, bears thefront of the Rogers Building in relief on its face,and was designed aiid executed by I. W. Litch-field, '85, upon whom it reflects great credit.The motto at the base is the old German one of"Schlagel und Eisen." The society is in aprosperous condition and endeavors to affordsubstantial aid to the members in the study ofmining engineering at the Institute.

The corps of cadets under Major Locke gavean exhibition drill in the gymnasium on Satur-day, March 29. The battalion showed muchimprovement, and executed the various manceu-vres of battalion and company drill in goodshape. After the drill, the balance of the after-noon was spent in dancing.

The students at the Institute interested inbicycling held a meeting recently which waslargely attended. Considerable interest wasshown and a club was formed with the follow-ing organization: President, Jas. C. Duff, '86;secretary and treasurer, T. W. Sprague, '87;captain, Edward H. Dewson, '85; ISt lieutenant,S. Sturges, '87; 2d lieutenant, Geo. F. Steele,'86; an executive committee, consisting of thepresident, secretary, captain, Messrs. Cochran,'85, and Steele, '87. The club promises to be aflourishing organization and a credit to the In-stitute.

Three miners were recently dropped fromthe mining laboratory because of neglect tohand in time cards.

"'Zwischen L6ffel und Mund,Geht viel Suppe zu Grund."

[P. S. They have been reinstated.]

[We append the beginning of a new novel,translated from the German especially for THETECH, but which, for obvious reasons, we areobliged to decline with thanks.]

"Although in January showed the thermome-ter 33°. During the night blew the wind veryweakly out of the southwest; in the morningwas the air clear, and the sun's rays fell burn-ingly upon the ground, which, from the rain ofthe preceding day, yet a little moist was, whensuddenly beheld I Fanchon - no, not Fanchon,but an etherealized beatification of Fanchon."

[We shall be glad if the author will call atroom I8 for his MS. between 4.30 and 6 p. M ]

Mr A. Stuart Pratt,formerly of '84, left BostonMarch 24, amid the tears and good wishes ofhis friends, for the West. He is going on a cat-tle ranch in Nebraska.

The annual Senior Ball - without the Sen-iors - was given in Odd Fellows' Hall, Fridayevening, April 4, by '85, '86, and '87, to '84.About seventy-five couples were present, and theaffair proved a brilliant and thoroughly enjoya-ble one in all respects. It is to be regrettedthat so many of the Seniors chose to hide theirgray heads elsewhere rather than show, at leastby being present, their appreciation of the com-pliment tendered them. Mrs. John D. Runkle,Mrs. Webster Wells, and Mrs. William T. Sedg-wick kindly acted as matro.1 s for the party.The floor committee, to whom much credit forthe complete success of the affair is due, con-sisted of T. W. Robinson, '84, F. G. Pratt,Everett Morss, and A. R. McKim, '85, CharlesWood, Theodore Stebbins, and S. R. Bartlett,'86, G. W. Davenport, A. L. Cushing, and H. C.Spaulding, '87. The orders, upon which the In-stitute seal figured prominently, were designedby Mr. Wood. J. Howard Richardson's orches-tra furnished exceptionally good music, andHarvey Blunt laid the table.

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tepartment o.tes,V. Meyer has recently separated from benzine

oils a composition, to which he gives the nameof Thiophen. The composition of this body isrepresented by the formula C 4H 4S ; it presentsthe closest analogy in general reactions withbenzine, yielding a sulphonic acid, a methylderivative, etc.; it reacts with diketones to formhighly colored compounds. The further studyof this interesting compound, now being carriedon in Prof. Meyer's laboratory, is likely to leadto important results. (Berichte, xvi., 2968.)

Mr. John L. Williams, a mine inspector of theReading Coal and Iron Company, has invented animprovement on the Davy SafetyLamp for minersby which the lamp can be quickly extinguishedby means of a wick cover worked from the in-terior. When a body of gas suddenly makes itspresence known, a failure to be able to ex-tinguish the light quickly brings with it an ex-plosion. As the miners will remember, the onlymeans of reducing the flame in an ordinary Davylamp is by means of a "pricker" worked fromthe outside.

We recommend to the miners an interestingarticle in the Efnginceriig and linincg youLrhalfor March 15 on the Durango Iron Mountain inMexico. Some analyses of the ore show it to beremarkably rich, - the crude ore containingabout eighty per cent of ferric and magneticoxides, three per cent phosphorus, and only afraction of one per cent of titanic acid.

The Western Union Telegraph Company (byarecent report) had, in I883, 428,546 miles of wirestrung upon 143,452 miles of poles, spread overthis country in all directions, and these figuresare constantly increasing.

It is rumored that the New York and NewEngland Railroad intend putting on a five-hourtrain to New York, as soon as the double trackis completed, which will be in the course of afew months. The distance to New York via theAir Line is only 215 miles, or 19 miles shorterthan the Springfield route, and about 14 milesless than by the Shore Line. A track tank is beingconstructed near Putnam, so that engines may

pick up water while running; and it is said thatrains will be run from Boston to Willimantic, theAir Line junction, a distance of 86 miles, with-out a stop. From a knowledge of the New Yorkand New England road and its grades, which inplaces are sixty feet to the mile, we doubt thefeasibility of the five-hour train, as it wouldnecessitate a speed of about 47 miles an hourover the main portion, allowing a much slowerspeed over the heavy grades of the Air Line.Were it not for the numerous drawbridges atwhich the Connecticut law requires stops, a veryhigh speed might be obtained over the NewYork, New Haven and Hartford Road, which iscomparatively level. It is said that the NewYork and New England in double tracking willimprove its grades somewhat.

The London Grap/iic says, " A prize of£62,ooo has been offered' in France for a dis-covery which shall .enable electricity to beapplied economically either as a source of heat,light, chemical action, mechanical power, or ameans of transmitting intelligence. The com-petition is international, and will be open untilDecember, 1887. The last use for the electriccurrent, however, is to "age " wine, this desir-able operation being effected in three hours forclaret, and three days for newly distilled spirits.By this means also all impurities are removed.

The Alanltfacturers' Gazette notices a recentarticle in the Philadelphia Photographer con-cerning our new photographic laboratory, andhopes some of us may be enabled to applyphotography to experiments on the strength ofmaterials, showing the physical changes of thebody under examination, and to the mechanicarts, as by studying cotton fibres and the dyestuffs and other materials incident to themanufacture of cotton cloth.

Some of the architects are experimenting ona new copying process. Paper is coated with as.)lution consisting of three parts acid chlorideof iron and one part of cream of tartar in thirtyparts of water. The exposure is made as in thecommon "blue process," and the print devel-oped with dilute gallic acid, giving dark lines ona white ground.

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HARVARD. -The base-ball nine will consistsubstantially of the same men this year as last.Nichols and Allen have developed into an excel-lent battery. Still, handicapped as the team isby the Faculty rules, much improvement mustbe made in order to win the championship.Tennis promises to be more popular than everthis year.- A University rifle team is talked of.-The Junior tug-of-war team won the classpulls. - Dr. Sargent has informed the captainsof the class crews that they will be held respon-sible if any of the members of their crews areunable to swim.- Harvard has held the cup forintercollegiate athletics for four years.

PRINCETON. - Two hundred students ofPrinceton took part in the last city election,supporting and electing the Democratic candi-date. This action was in retaliation for finesimposed by the Republican mayor on some ofthe students for breaking street lamps: Ex.-The treasurer of the Foot Ball Association showsin his accounts a total expenditure of $ 1,912.04.The association has been self-supporting, havingcollected no subscriptions, and finished the sea-son with a balance of $2 26 in the treasury.

NOTES. The Dartmouth Faculty have re-fused permission to the students to black up forminstrel performances during the term. Theathletic conference meeting at Columbia waswell attended by representatives of the variouscolleges, but nothing important was done. Wefailed to see the need of the conference, anyway. Students of the University of Pennsyl-vania are discussing means to raise one hundredthousand dollars for a gymnasium.- Johns Hop-kins has added an archcological society to itsmany features.- The Michigan Ajrgonaut hasappeared in a new cover, which is certainly verysimilar in colors to our own. Of course thechange is an improvement. - The University ofVermont has received a bequest of $ I o,ooo fora new gymnlasium. - More trouble has arisenat Hamilton. The Seniors say that the Facultydid not keep up to the agreements made upontheir returning to college. - A class in Sanskrithas been formed at the University of Pennsyl-vania.

A SENSITIVE PLANT.

(Herr Pumpernickel, having just played a com-position of his own, bursts into tears.)

Chorus of Friends. "* Oh, zwhat is the matter ?What can we do for you ?"

Herr- Pumpernickel. "Ach! Nossing! Noss-ing ! Bot ven I hear really coot music, zenmust I always vcep / "- Punch.

AN EXTRAORDINARY CASE.

Site. "Only give up smoking for one -year,and I have no doubt that you will never touchtobacco again."

He. "VWell, I don't know; I did not smokeonce for fifteen years, and then I began andenjoyed it hugely."

Size. "For fifteen years! You must havebeen very young when you began."

He. "I was fifteen."- Life.

IT S NOT SO DIFFICULT TO SPEAK FRENCH,

AFTER ALL.

Mistress (fluently). "Oh - er - FranSoise, ilfaut que vous alliez chez le chemist, dans HighStreet, pour le gargle de Ma-lemoiselle Maud;et chez le toy-shop, pour le Lawn-Tennis batde Monsieur Malcolm; et n'oubliez pas monwaterproof, chez le cleaner, vis-a-vis 1'Under-ground Railway Station ; et dites A Smithson,le builder (dans Church Lane a co6t der publichouse, vous savez), que le kitchen-boiler est-est - est - "

Fratzfoise (who has been longer in Englandthan her new mistress thinks). "Est burrrst!Tres bien, madame." - Punch.

It is said that Salvini has abandoned his at-tempt to master the English language. Thatseems strange: he appeared to have the languagepretty thoroughly broken when he was here.Cincinnati Saturday ig/ht.

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" The Giesshach is one of the most beautifid cascades in Europe. The water, in fltling froom cragf to crag, isthrcn off in extremely clarge drops, Sfrequently several inches in diameter." Lord FiM2znoggin had heard of them inzhis iecit, es on PlAsical Geography, and had come to investizate the matter. While seated at his table antmon the trees,sipping beer, he was struck i the forehead by one of these stray drops, and had to be borne home on a shut.er. - R.

A high old time - the sun.Sole agent - the shoemaker.Soul agent - the minister.Sol agent - Gen. Hazen.A pawnbroker is deserving of sympathy: he

is a lone creature.The Charge of the Light Brigade - the gas

bill. - Life.A new variety of ice-cream has appeared in

London. It is called the "Mary Anderson."Back-hair rushes between the Sophomores

and Freshwomen are said to take the place ofcane rushes in some of our contemporary femalecolleges.

In a "Bob-tail" Car. - Old gentleman (ex-citedly). "Didn't you know that was a fifty-cent piece I gave you that you put in the box ?"

His vis-d-vis (calmly). "Oh, yas! but such abore to make change." - Life.

Must Greek go ?-A gentleman who studiedGreek for the purpose of keeping his privatejournal in that language married a Vassar girl.He is now learning the Algonquin dialect.

CONCLUSIONS.

Pitman (to dignitary of the church). "An',se, warn't ye're a poor curate, noo, travellin' wi'the likes o' huz ?"

Bishop (who thinks it right to travel thirdclass occasionally). "I once was, my friend;but "

Pitman (compassionately). "Ah! I see,--that wretched drink !" (Explanations.) - Punch.

Pretty Girl's Version of Pope. -" Beauty isdrawn, dear, by a single heir! " -- Punch.

"Tanrigibles and variables are the foundationsof all science; possession is nine points of thelaw." - Daniel Pratt.

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TiIIS school of industrial science was opened in February, 1S86. The first class graduated in 1868.The school is devoted to the teaching of science as applied to the various engineering professions: viz., civil,mechanical, and mining engineering, as well as to architecture, chemistry, and natural history, physics andelectrical engineering, and metallurgy.

Besides the above distinctly professional courses, the Institute offers scientific courses of a less technicalcharacter, designed to give students a preparation for business callings. A four-years' course in biology, chem-istry, and physics has been established, as preparatory to the professional study of medicine.

Modern languages are taught so far as is needed for the ready and accurate reading of scielntific worksand periodicals, and may be further pursued as a means of general training.

The constitutional and political history of England an l the United States, political economy, and inter-national law are taught, in a measure, to the students of all regular courses.

Applicants for admission to the Institute are exanmined in English grammar, geography, French, arithmine-tic, algebra, and geomletry. A fuller statement of the requirements for admission will be found in the catalogue,which will be sent without charge on application.

A clear admission paper from any college of recognized character will be accepted as evidence of prepara-tion, in place of an examination.

Graduates of colleges con'erring degrees are presumed to have the necessary qualifications for enteringtlhe thlird-year class in any of the regular courses of the Institute, and will be so admitted provisionuilly, on thepresentation of their diplolmas.

The feature of instructibn which has been most largely developed in the school is laboratory training,shop-work and field practice, to supplement, to illustrate, and to emphasize the instruction of the recitation andlecture room.

Surveying instruments are provided for field work in civil and topographical engineering. Extensiveshops have been fitted up for the use of both hland and machine tools; and a laboratory of steam engineeringhas been established as a part of the instruction in mechlanical engineering. Several steam boilers and steamengines of various types are available for experiments and tests. The departmenlt of mining engineering andmetallurgy has the use of laboratories in wvhich the milling and smelting of lead, copper, silver, and other ores,in economic quantities, are regulally performed by the students themselves. The classes in architecture supple-nient the work of the drawingc and designing rollms by the examination of structures completed or in courseof erection, and by practical experiment in the laboratory of applied mechanics, testing the strength ofmaterials and working out problems in construction. The Kidder Chemical Laboratories, just completed, con-tain desks for four hundred and twenty-six students, and afford the best modern facilities for the study of general,analytical, and organic chemistry. The Rogers I'Physical Laboratory has been fgreatly extended in every depart-ment during the past year, especially in respect to facilities for instruction and research in electrical science.

On the successful completion of any one of the four-year courses of the Institute, a degee of bachelor ofscience will be conferred. The Institute is also empowered to confbr the degree of doctor of science. Specialstudents are allowed to enter special divisions of any of the courses, on giving evidence that they are preparedto pursue with advantage the studies selected.

The Institute of Technology; as a recipient of a portion of the United States grant to colleges of agricul-ture and the mecllanic arts, gives instruction in imilitary tactics.

The fee for tuition of students takingy the full course is $200 a year. Besides this, $25 or $30 are needed forbooks and instruments. There are no separate laboratory fees. Only payment for articles broken is required.

Attached to the Institute are also two special schools: viz., the " School of Alechanic Arts." and the" Lowell Scliool of Industrial Design." The former gives a training in the use of tools, together with elementarymathematics and drawing. English, French, and geography are also tau-ght in this school. The fees for tuitionare $150 a year. The Lowell School teaches the making of designs for prints, carpets, wall-papers, laces, ging-hams, and other woven goods. A weaving department withl a variety of loomlls is connected with this school.No charge for instruction is made. FRANCIS A. WALKER, President.

FRANChN IS Aa. WALKER,~I President.

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BRUNSWICKBOSTON'S

GRANDEST

HOTEL,

Near the PublicGarden, Common,and Public Library,Museum of FineArts, New OlaSo uh, Trinity(Phillips Brooks's)

Church, and oppo-

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Beacon and Dart-

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BARNES & DUNKLEE,Proprietors.

GENTLEMEN'S SHOES A SPECIALTY.We ask the attention of Students to our unrivalled assortment of

BOOTS & SHOES,French, English and American,

Including many that are very stylish, durable and low priced.

HENRY H. TUTTLE & CO.,COR. WINTER STREET

Elevator to the Atelier.� � --

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How to DF ER$$ iE[LjLIANY engaged in business or study have little thought for matters of dress. VWe have men inquire nearly every day the

, proper dress for a Day or Morning Wedding, an Evening Wedding, a Dinner, or for the Opera. To meet these inquiriesand also for the convenience of our customers, we have issued a little publication of " FA$IIOI2l fOTg$," giving all the latestpoints in regard to dress. We will be happy to present one to any one who may request it.

FTRAI2K D. $MOfeC$, TAILOs, Bo$Ton, 4 PAuKsTReCT.

WADSWORTH, HOWLAND & CO.IMPORTERS OF

Dran lhti K Istrn 8ets,MANUFACTURERS OF THE ORIGINAL

D:ESIGiENTTh=RjS COLOZDbSAND DEALERS IN

A&rtists', Arochitects' and EngiTsneers'Supplies,

84 l7askington Sireel. .. e 08TOXCatalogues It'ree upon Application.

M. R. WARREN,

Stationery,8836 -Wcshrington SfZfreet,

DIN IN TIO D ENGR G SPECILT

WEDDING INiTATION AND CARi ENfRAVN8 A SPECIALTY.

VINAL'S

PNrk fiding Academy,Cor. West Chester P'k & Newbury St.

I]OS''ON.

;rit Riding School is ful/yequipped for the comfort andconvenience of its Patrons, andis under the management of Mr.F. E. PIERSON.

Equestrians wvill find a largestud of fiSe saddle horses withattentive grooms in readiness atall times.

Back Bay and South End Carspass the doors

DEE BROTHER S , Flonrsts,104 TRE MONT STREET, Corner of I3ROM3FIELD, Studio Building.

Choice Cut Flowers (Roses a specialty). Plants furnished for Window and Table Decoration.

T-os. W. DEE. CONSEV.'A_7TORIES .A.l MlT. AUBU .N JO IIN H. DEE.AZELL C. BOWDITCH. Telephlone 82°5.

&9U_ __ _ _9 % or Fine -r*i'ing, NO. 1 303, 170. Foe Broad rIng, 294,y 389

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No. 7 o0RNHWILL Bo$TroN.

Special Improved American Star.

Most Econowmical Applic ation of Powe ' knowne

HAS WON IN HILL CLIMBING

CONTESTS.

BEEN RIDDEN A MILE IN 2.51; WITH-OUT HANDS IN 3.11, &c.

gzrioes from $75 to $1a5.

STALL & BURT, 509 Tremont St., BOSTON.

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