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Foreign: England has been implored to mediate between Egypt and Abssynia to prevent war. - France will not contribute towards the expense of making an inland sea of the Desert of Sahara. - Direct telegraphic communication between Germany and the United States was opened Saturday. - The London Observer says there is reason to believe that before the end of this week all the American suspects imprisoned in Ireland will have left the country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. | 4/24/1882 | See Source »

FURNITURE. Chamber, Parlor, Library, Dining Room and Hall furniture, from an immense stock, is sold direct from the manufactory, at PAINE'S, 48 Canal and 141 Friend streets, opposite Boston & Maine depot, Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 4/21/1882 | See Source »

...good for the greatest number, I should like to suggest to them, through your columns, that they make a contract with either the Cambridge or some other laundry, to do the laundry work of the college. It will be both economical and convenient; economical, because we can then deal direct with the laundry and avoid the importunings of tradesmen to buy articles which we seldom want but often have forced upon us by such remarks as "willing to accommodate you," "no hurry for the money." It is a well known fact that the laundry is used as a "draw." Many...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/21/1882 | See Source »

FURNITURE. Chamber, Parlor, Library, Dining Room and Hall furniture, from an immense stock, is sold direct from the manufactory, at PAINE'S, 48 Canal and 141 Friend streets, opposite Boston & Maine depot, Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 4/15/1882 | See Source »

...young men selected in this way, the most worthless are weeded out during the first year, under a very watchful process, which rests finally upon the test of frequent examinations. The actual depletion of the freshman class through direct dropping at Christmas-time and in June, and voluntary surrender under fear of dropping, is ten per cent. The same process is repeated in the following years." This preparation has been especially directed to prepare the student to develop the power of self-direction, and not merely to make him acquainted with certain subjects...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ELECTIVE SYSTEM AT HARVARD. | 4/15/1882 | See Source »

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