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...final competition in the current series of matches will be shot this afternoon. Shooting begins at 2 P. M. Winners will be announced in the CRIMSON of tomorrow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H. S. C. | 1/7/1885 | See Source »

...silver cups to be awarded in the current shotgun matches, are on exhibition at Leavitt and Peirce...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 1/5/1885 | See Source »

...things nowadays, is for the ordinary citizen, who has not devoted himself to the study of political science, to understand the political questions of the day. The newspapers are, for the most part, too superficial or partisan to be good instructors. It is, however, precisely this intelligent insight into current politics which the Society for Political Education seeks to give to its members. The reason why Harvard men, particularly, should join this society, is that the University has always played an important part in the movement among educated men to enter politics. The Society for Political Education...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/22/1884 | See Source »

...society proposes to carry out its objects by submitting occasionally to its members lists of book which it regards as desirable reading on current political and economic questions; by supplying the books so selecting annual courses of reading for its members; by supplying the books so selected at the smallest possible advance beyond actual cost; by furnishing and circulating at a low price, and in cheap form, sound economic and political literature in maintenance and illustration of the principles above announced as constituting the basis of its organization: and by assisting in the formation of reading and corresponding circles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Society for Political Education. | 12/22/1884 | See Source »

...time and care given to the important study of English at most of the so-called universities and colleges of the north is well shown in a letter to the current Nation, in which the writer gives a statement of the condition of the English department in southern colleges, To us the time and money spent upon English in these less favored institutions of learning will undoubtedly seem small, but in proportion to the money and means at their disposal, it is undoubtedly by no means as small as would appear at first sight. Often, however, the study of English...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/20/1884 | See Source »