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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...should no longer expect either money or services as gifts; but where it should make its subscription price sufficiently large to enable it to meet all ordinary running expenses. These can be satisfactorily met by doubling the present subscription price, provided all present subscribers can be retained and a normal rate of increase maintained. The annual subscription price has, therefore, been raised to two dollars; the business office has been put upon a purely business basis, with better preparations for meeting the demands upon it; and it is expected and believed that the members of the Association, in order...
...Clow '91, Professor of History in the State Normal School, Oshkosh, Wisconsin...
...Subway meets the demands. (a) The people desire it. - (1) Passed both branches of legislature by good majorities. - (2) Accepted by a normal popular vote: Boston Herald, Apr. 12, '95. - (3) Common Council voted against repeal. - (4) House defeated repeal bill: Boston Herald, Apr. 30, '95. - (5) Prominent business men endorse it: Morning Journal, Apr. 29. - (6) Opponents not representative men. - (b) Benefits local traffic. - (c) Benefits suburban traffic...
Turning now to the periods of residence, it appears that the normal residence for the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Divinity has remained constant; that a residence of one year has been required for the degree of Master of Arts since 1872, whereas before that period no residence was required for that degree; that the degrees of Doctor of Philosophy, Doctor of Science, Doctor of Dental Medicine, Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, Bachelor of Agriculture, Civil Engineer and Mining Engineer have been added at various periods between 1869 and 1886; and that the required term of residence...
...then spoke of the discoveries from experimental investigations and the more common results, or accompanying effects of inveterate drinking. Although alcohol warms the skin by increasing the circulation, yet in a person who is paralyzed by liquor the temperature of the body is found to be several degrees below normal. The really strong plea for drinking is that it acts as an aid to conviviality, also that it helps at a crisis, but though it may produce temporary happiness, the following effects will be deeper melancholy and though it may stimulate for the moment, it leaves its victim...