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BOSTON, May 12.- Local forecast for New England, Wednesday: Generally fair weather, wind shifting to the east...
...commencement day orators at Brown University have been chosen as follows: Irving H. Gamwell, Holliston, Mass.; Clarence M. Gallup, Norwich, Ct.; Robert. S. Phillips, New Bedford; George Hopkinson, Perkinsville, Vt.; Champlin Burrage, Portland, Me.; Charles S. Steadman, Albany, N. Y.; William C. Bliss, East Providence; George E. Coghill, Roseville...
...island of Gotland in the Baltic, 130 miles southeast of Stockholm, said Dr. Derby, lies the city of Wisby. During the 12th and 13th centuries Wisby was a great distributing centre through which passed the trade from the East. The wealth of the city grew mightily until in the 14th century a rich merchant of the town who had become discontented, fied to the king of Denmark, Waldemar, and excited him to plunder Wisby...
...ransom had been demanded and given, a faithless plunder followed. Thereafter, the importance of the city decreased. In 1525, it was plundered again by a jealous neighboring city and the discovery of the passage round the Cape of Good Hope caused the loss of its trade with the East...
...provisional appointments for commencement parts have been announced by the faculty of Dartmouth College as follows; Oration, with valedictory, Robert H. Fletcher, Hanover; salutatory in Latin, with oration, Arthur T. Smith, Dover; philosophical orations, Edward R. Ham, Keezar Falls, Me.; Moses H. Hoyt, Fitchburg; English orations, Thomas C. Ham, East Barrington; Harry D. Lakeman, Nashua; disputation, "Is the American Policy of Dispersed Collegiate Endowment Advantageous to Education?"- affirmative, Louis S. Cox, Manchester; no appointment for negative; dissertation, Guy C. Richards, Salem, Mass...