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Houghton, Mifflin and Company have just published from the Riverside Press the "Letters of Asa Gray," edited by Jane Loring Gray. The book is in two volumes, crown octavo, with several portraits of Dr. Gray, and a few illustrations of the Botanic Garden...
...passage of this particular bill is desirable. (1) The general system of the bill has proved successful in the Norway-Sweden Union, the Austro-Hungarian Union, and the United States. Bryce, London Times, Feb. 14. (2) The supremacy of Parliament is retained in the right of the Crown Veto. (3) The retention of Irish members at Westminster is necessary for protection of Irish in Imperial matters. (4) Two Houses has been found by experience to be the best legislative scheme. (5) The Protestant minority is protected by the division of the legislature and by special provisions of the bill...
...Executive Council is a relic of Colonial government: Fiske, Civil Gov't., pp. 161-164; Nation, LII, 251 (Mch. 26. 1891). - (a) The crown governors had been arbitary; - (b) The people feared to put the executive power in the hands...
...first to be founded in 1636; William and Mary next in 1692; Yale in 1701, and Princeton in 1746. The charter for the University of Pennsylvania was granted in 1749, and eight years later, in 1757, King's College was founded in New York city. An iron crown was placed upon it, as the emblem of royalty, but this was removed when the institution took the name of Columbia College. The Rhode Island College, established in 1763, is what is now knows as Brown University. The nucleus from which Dartmouth College started was a school founded...
...close sympathy and keen appreciation of its difficulties. The results accomplished demonstrate the real nature of the athletic revival which has taken place at Harvard; they show that the best elements of Harvard life are in our athletics. Such work as has been done this year is its own crown. Victory can add something, but is not essential to the satisfaction we derive from it. Whether we win the game at Springfield or not, the really substantial glory of the foot ball season, the work done by Captain Trafford and his men, will remain the same. They have overcome discouragements...