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...funds easy. This is the right spirit which should be shown on all occasions, where class organizations and 'varsity too, are in a position to help those class and 'varsity teams which, otherwise, have to rely on subscriptions. The freshman musical clubs are in a position where they can collect funds from their class, and from others, in a way in which the subscription will be least sharply felt. They are working hard to give good concerts, and draw large audiences, and the rest of the class should take right hold and work with them, whenever the concerts are given...
...duty on wool and woolen goods is one of the vulnerable points in the McKinley bill. - (a) It is at present too high. - (b) It was never asked nor expected by the manufacturers. Nation Jan. 7. - (c) It was introduced solely to collect a revenue to carry on the war and the duties now in operation were not imposed till 1867 and then because of the work of a few interested parties; Boston Herald Feb. 6. - (d) It has not the justification of affording advantage to those in whose interests it is maintained. - (e) Importation of wool has increased since...
...only possible remedy seemed to be the erection of a new library reading room. Committees from among the graduates and undergraduates were chosen to collect funds for the building. The undergraduates responded generously to the cause whose need was keenly felt. Mr. Moses Williams '68, of Brookline, consented to act as treasurer, and he has invested the funds already collected and will take charge of whatever further may be contributed...
...teaching here. In the teaching of every department, the library has been made the central fact about which everything else revolves. To do good work, to make any headway at all in most courses, the student must have recourse to the libraries. The class-room and departmental libraries collect just the books needed by a student in a particular class of courses and enable him to get at them with greater convenience. Their popularity has been perfectly evident from the beginning, and they are now an established feature of our library system...
ELECTRIC CARS. - Men are requested to collect at Harvard Square instead of at Leavitt's, in order that the West End starter may send his cars off more promptly...