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...managers of the Infantry Hall skating rink, Providence, were yesterday summoned to appear before a United States commissioner to answer a complaint brought under the civil rights' act for refusing admission to a colored lawyer because of his color. There will be a hearing tomorrow...
...cold weather, - barbarous, yes, cannabalistic. But, gentlemen, I want to ask this: Instead of sending, imperiously, for us to come to the office, why do they not come to us? Eh? - I ask you why don't they? I pause for a reply. You are silent; you do not answer...
Stir thy placid depths and answer...
German Conversation Class. - Instructor to Mr. X., who has spent Sunday in New York: "With whom did you talk Sunday?" Junior: "Mit mein Schwester." Instructor to Mr. Y., who also lives in New York: "Do you see anything to correct in his answer?" Mr. Y.: "Yes, sir! Mit Meiner Schwester." - [News...
...statistics, we see only this result. And again, what have I accomplished in all these years by my efforts to secure steam heating in the dormitories and more lamps in the yard, and other changes too numerous to mention? Simply, nothing. And why, Mr. HERALD, why is this? The answer, sir, is Harvard "indifference." Indifference to reform, indifference to their own interests, indifference to disinterested efforts on their behalf; and fear of publicity, fear of the enthusiasm of indignation, fear of "bad form," forsooth. What is left for me henceforth? Obscurity only. After my services of so many centuries...