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...PRESIDENT SEELYE has given all of his salary while a representative in Congress from Massachusetts to the town of Amherst, to be expended in laying sidewalks through the village...
...Williams College has graduated 31 Members of Congress, 5 United States Senators, 8 Governors, 16 Judges of the Supreme Court, 32 Presidents of Colleges, and 760 Clergymen...
...There have been 63 Members of Congress and 16 United States Senators among the graduates of Dartmouth, not including two Congressmen and one Senator elect. The upper House of the Canadian Parliament has also contained one Dartmouth man, and the lower House three...
...World, in a recent editorial, proposes a scheme which, could it be carried out, would put new life into athletics at Harvard. Several plans for surmounting the difficulties in the way of the North Pole have lately been laid before Congress. Of these, the most feasible seems to be that of Captain Howgate, who proposes "to establish a colony at eighty degrees north latitude, and from that point push forward toward the Pole by sledging expeditions." The scheme of the World is as follows...
...contemporary assures us that "at Harvard, the man of fashionable illiteracy and European dress has his idolatrous imitators." Shall we not rise at once, then, like one man, and put down these evil influences? I should suggest that the first steps to be taken would be to assemble a congress of "Pocos" in the Yard immediately, divest ourselves then of all foreign habiliments, deliver them over to those whose minds are fitted only for such shackles, and oblige them at once to remove what is given them from the land. Then let us collect in a large heap that peculiarly...