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In the pages devoted to Harvard College, in the article on Cambridge, in the "History of Middlesex County," by S. A. Drake, we learn, among other things, that "in 1786 a college uniform was prescribed for the students with particulars of form and color and a system of distinctions for...
An important conference of government officials, naval officers and congressmen was held yesterday, in Washington, to consider our naval needs and plans to supply them. A fleet of steel cruisers was deemed necessary.
...blossom into any worthy fruition, we will necessarily be cautious hereafter in staking any great hopes on any other amateur, such as Oscar Wilde even. So much for any claims Mr. Wilde may have upon us for any promise or any achievement of his own. Aside from these considerations, society justly claims and exercises the right of providing laws of social conduct for its members and of punishing infringements of these laws. Mr. Wilde has infringed these laws; and the public has passed and is executing judgment upon him in its own way; a way somewhat harsh and severe...
The New York Tribune, after stating that the University of London has admitted lady graduates on equal terms to its "Convocation" and now grants degrees to women, says: "Harvard and Yale are invited to consider this fact."
TO THE EDITORS OF THE HERALD : I don't know whether there is really any use in spoiling a good story; but then there is no harm in accuracy, and the papers lately, you know, have been somewhat inaccurate in their statements and conclusions on the freshman Music Hall affair...