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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Owing to typographical errors, the notice in the Fact and Rumor column yesterday about the Hasty Pudding Club was a mistake. The true state of affairs is that $4500 out of the $5000 needed to enable the society to build this summer, has been subscribed, conditionally that the remaining $500 is subscribed. It is earnestly hoped that this small remainder may be made up as soon as possible...
...fund railroads degenerated into very much of the same scramble as a River and Harbor bill in this country. In the thickly populated parts of Italy, railroads were organized and built under government-control. In the poorer districts of the north, private corporations were allowed the right to build and control them. The government roads were a success, - a fact not to be accounted for by the government. The simple explanation is that the private roads encountered no expense not warranted by prospects of increased patronage, - a thing not heeded by the government in its own affairs...
...Hasty Pudding Club of Harvard will soon build a club house at a cost...
...strong and earnest appeal for the requisite amount of money to build a monument in New York to the memory of General Grant embodies the most important feature of the first article in the January number of the "Art Review". To the artist, the short account of the famous "Gilder" of Rembrandt cannot fail to be both attractive and interesting. "An Outline Sketch" is the title of a pleasant picture of the distinguished American painter, Paul Reubens Smith. The closing pages of the magazine are entirely devoted to "Art Notes," which form a budget of interesting facts to artists. Apart...
...years ago Mr. James Lick of California donated $700,000 for the purchase of a telescope that should surpass all others. The lens for that telescope is now completed, having the unparalleled aperture of 36 inches. An observatory has been build upon Mount Hamilton near San Jose, at an altitude of over 4000 feet, to form a suitable site for which 40,000 tons of the hardest granite had to be removed. The lens will rest upon silver supports in an iron box until the steel dome and the mountings are finished. It is expected that everything will be perfected...