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...unusual demand for tickets to the Hasty Pudding Theatricals has induced the management to arrange for another performance to be given Monday evening, April 28th...
...Rebellion the status of the cotton manufacture was upset. The raw material increased from 10 1-2 cents in 1861 to $1.90, and then dropped to about 20 cents in 1865. The wages had risen almost in proportion, and from that time up to 1873, the demand was far greater than the supply. Prices were high and much money was made, but after that time the demand fell off and many men were forced out of the business...
...members of the Academy be determined from these. Let the number of men so determined constitute the standing number of members in the Academy. When there shall have arisen sufficient cause for it for reason of our growing literature, this number can be increased to meet the demand...
...Thursday, it was voted to concur with the vote of the president and fellows abolishing the chair of Ancient, Byzantine and Modern Greek. This was the professorship held by the late Prof. Sophocles, and was created for him in 1860. We doubt if there was ever any great demand for instruction in Prof. Sophocle's peculiar subjects, and in late years the courses were virtually abandoned. The main monuments of the professorship are the works of its only holder-the Greek Grammar and the dictionary...
...view of the little demand for such instruction in this country, and of the difficulty of finding a worthy successor to the chair, we suppose that its abandonment can not but be considered wise. Still we cannot but cherish the hope that this abandonment is but a temporary one. A university which claims to hold the highest place among the educational institutions of the country as does Harvard, is the one university to which students in special branches must look for instruction. At present the demand for this instruction is but slight, but that it is increasing is shown...