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...past few years. The large plaids are gone, and in their place are the quiet check and fine stripes in worsteds and in cheviots the homespun effects and dog tooth checks are the most popular. The style of cut also show radical changes. Gentlemen who appreciate all the correct points in cut and proportion are invited to order of us, as goods will be cheerfully shown. 10 per cent discount for cash, and moderate prices. FRANK D. SOMERS, 5 Park Street...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Special Notice. | 4/15/1890 | See Source »

...expenses of these men would be only $95.00, while the minimum would fall below $76.00. At Memorial Hall the price of board has averaged within a few cents of $4.00 a week all through this year and last year. The figures given in the catalogue, $152 00, are therefore correct. It is absurd to say that the price of board "really runs much higher" than $4 25 a week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/10/1890 | See Source »

...attendance at the meeting of the Co-operative society last evening is any sign, the members intend to place implicit confidence in the new board of directors. These officers will have before them a task which will require great activity and earnest work, if they undertake to correct the abuses we have already called attention to. The society appears to have been badly managed and to be sadly in need of reform. With a suitable superintendent, and a board of officers elected especially for the purpose. great improvements ought to be made in the coming year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/27/1890 | See Source »

Some scholars have refused to believe that Homer wished to describe the Trojan war and even Mr. Glad stone in our day is said to believe that the poems are full of Egyptian mythology. We have today a more correct text than ever before. Homer has a wonderful ability to enter into the spirit of his poems and make his characters perfect representatives of the qualities they typify. Achilles, the type of heroic might, violent in anger and sorrow, capable also of chivalrous and tender compassion-Odyssey, the type of resourceful intelligence. joined to heroic endurance. How remarkable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Wright's Lecture. | 2/20/1890 | See Source »

However for the sake of argument supposing his figures for Yale to be correct and making the necessary changes in the figures given for Harvard, the table for 1889-90 will stand as follows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Comparative Growth of Harvard and Yale. | 2/5/1890 | See Source »

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