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That the new green-house at the Botanical Garden was built at a cost of $4,800, and to pay for it gifts of $1,600 were received from Messrs. H. H. Hunnewell, Fred. L. Ames, and B. P. Cheney...
...purely literary papers, one on "The Brownings," by Miss Kate M. Rowland, of Baltimore. The other literary paper, by J. Heard, is a singularly cogent argument to show "Why Women should Study Shakespeare." The poetry is not abundant, but comprises such names as Celia Thaxter, John Vance Cheney and Louise Chandler Moulton...
...speeches, giving reminiscences of Wendell Phillips: Mrs. Elizabeth B. Chace, Theodore D. Weld, Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Sewall, Rev. Samuel May, Lucy Stone, William L. Bowditch, John G. Whittier, T. W. Higginson, Rev. James Freeman Clarke, Willim Lloyd Garrison, Jr., Julia Ward Howe, Hon. Albert Palmer, Ednah D. Cheney, H. B. Blackwell, Elizur Wright, Hon. Thomas Russell, Richard P. Hallowell, Chas. W. Slack and George W. Lowther...
...floor for purposes of speech, should be passed." Affirmative - Rogers, Whiting and Keep. Negative - Webb, Allen and Delafield. Decided in the negative. The subject for next time is, "Resolved, That the dismissal of Gen. McClellan from command in November, 1862, was expedient." Affirmative - Putnam, Eaton, W. H. Dunbar. Negative - Cheney, Hubbard, Sewall...
Vanderbilt has had two hundred yards of costly silk hangings woven at the celebrated establishment of Cheney Bros., for his new mansion in New York. The hand embroidery on this beautiful material cost nearly four thousand dollars. The silk draperies made by the same concern expressly for him are delicately interwoven with threads of pure gold and cost fifty dollars per yard...