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...attempt was made last evening to blow up the local government building in Westminster, Eng. Considerable damage was done but no lives were lost. It is generally believed to be the work of Fenians. An attempt to blow up the office of the London Times was also discovered and frustrated...
Secretary of the Treasury Folger is ill, so ill that yesterday he was obliged to abandon his attempt to attend to business...
...illness of Gortschakoff is caused by an attempt to poison...
...success of the Harvard society has suggested to men at Yale and other colleges to attempt something similar, but as yet nothing but talk has been accomplished. There is no evident reason why Harvard's example cannot be followed by every college in the United States, and in view of the great interest in the experiment manifested at Amherst, Princeton, Yale, Cornell and the University of Pennsylvania, there is yet room for hope that the Harvard society may be only the leader of a long line of useful organizations. If several of our leading colleges could maintain societies of this...
...such of the New England colleges as are within reasonable distances of each other, and desires an expression of opinion on this point from the different colleges. We cannot say what stand our Tennis Association will take on this question, but last year we believe it made an attempt to form an inter-collegiate association, or at least to get up a tournament between several of the colleges. The proposal was not, however, favorably received by some of the colleges and the plan was therefore given...