University of California Berkeley - Blue and Gold Yearbook (Berkeley, CA)

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4- THE BLUE AND GOLD - !@ THE FOUR CLASSES X. 1

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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA 3 jTTTI i , , THE G-ENIUS OF CRAM.

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UNIVERSITY OP CALIFORNIA the past year or two there has been a wide spread feeling of alarm as to the duration of the stability of this astronomical atom called the World ; owing to the fact that the venerable and some- what mythical Dame Shipton intimated in language which is plain that this mass of organized nebulae would resolve itself into sidereal chaos in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and eighty-one. However, the fears engendered by the predictions of this aged female, who in all probability was given to aerial locomotion, are gradually disappearing, chiefly due to the coldness of the cast-iron fact that Mother Earth still holds her own and prances round her elliptical course with her accustomed velocity and usual attraction, giving no other sign of dissolution than an occasional earthquake, a row in the faculty, or a rise in the price of billiards.