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...shown the least willingness to comply with the requests of their patrons until they were frightened into making an effort at improvement by the inception of a new railroad scheme. Why, then, should they expect the citizens of Cambridge to favor them? A rumor has been started to the effect that the new horse-railroad will cut through Jarvis Field, and otherwise injure real estate. This is not true; on the contrary, the new road will furnish a direct line to Boston, and when extended, as it is proposed eventually to do, will include Brookline, Somerville, Charlestown, and other suburban...
Guiteau is anxious to get out of prison, and has offered his note for $5000 to lawyer Reed and several others if they will effect his release. He thinks he could make $50,000 next winter by lecturing, and claims to have an offer from Boston of $500 a night for six nights. There is a great demand for the official report of the trial...
...attempt too much at once; and above all, to enlist the interest and active cooperation of the greatest number possible before taking any decisive step. Better, as the Crimson hints, bend every effort to securing one article, such as coal, at fair prices, than make a desperate endeavor to effect a reform of the whole market, and then find it impossible to manage our elephant with success...
...uninitiated the subject of a recent university thesis comes with ambiguous effect. It was on "The Development of Lucifer...
...even to collegiate instruction, has sufficed to insure it a lamentable prevalence in every stage of the college curriculum. The absurdity of applying the methods of the common schools to the liberal studies of any university, which is in reality a university, is very manifest. But especially the demoralizing effect which this system has upon the spirit and habit of thinking of the student is what emphatically condemns it. The entire pernicious system of "cramming" is the direct outcome of it; and as to the evil of this habit there can be no question...