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Meanwhile the supper was laid at Tremeansburg and an extra force of citizens sworn in as police to protect the solaced freshmen. These inoffensive looking young men arrived by the correct train and sat down to a very handsome supper, safely guarded from its real owners. For several hours the fun was kept up aided by music from the minstrels and band, and stolen toasts prepared by the unlucky freshmen. In particular, one which said that: "The class of '87 is the largest class that has entered the university for five years, and if every succeeding class is morally, mentally...
Members will please further correct their list of affiliated tradesmen by striking out, under the name of Livery, Joel Pike, an by adding to the list as gentlemen's furnishers in Boston, the firm name, Smith and Stedman, 343 Washington street...
...Richmond, and the ultimate capture of the city. To accomplish this object, he had at his disposal troops to the number of a hundred thousand. To oppose him, Johnson, and afterward Lee, had about eighty thousand men. These estimates include all three branches of the service, and are approximately correct. McClellan had taken months to organize and discipline his men, and at the very beginning of the campaign he spent several weeks in building works in front of the Confederate entrenchments on the Warwick line near York-town, only to find that when everything was in readiness to open fire...
...Edward Atkinson will be the lecturer. Mr. Atkinson is well known as a business man who has turned his attention to the subject of political economy and he professes to have found a solution to the problem of what affects wages. Whether he has succeeded or not in a correct solution his opinion will be well worth hearing. The remaining lectures are to be a review of the three great industries, cotton, iron and wool. These three words are constantly in the mouths of the people, as the subject of tariff reform is so often mentioned in the daily papers...
...handing in the marks of their section has been raised again and again, but the only solution thus far has been that they don't. And yet, unless prevented by some strong reason, it seems a gratuitous piece of unkindness for any instructor to go leisurely to work to correct the books of his sections, knowing that the results are awaited with impatience by the men. Of course, when there is any fair reason for a delay, everyone is willing to wait patiently, but when there is not, it most obviously is a piece of injustice which should be remedied...