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...Total Abstinence Society intend requesting Mr. Samuel Longfellow, brother of the poet, and General John L. Swift, deputy collector of Boston, to present addresses at Harvard. When Wendell Phillips was asked, he declared his willingness to speak, saying that when he was in college certain students attempted to start a similar society, but, since at that time he did not feel the same interest in the cause which he now does, he neglected to aid them. For this reason he felt as if he owed a debt which could only be repaid by helping as much as possible the present...
...asked that the affairs of the Annex be administered by the governing organization of the university. As Harvard is not able to undertake this charge under the present circumstances, the managers desire that their school shall be no additional burden. To bring about this result and to further the general interests of the organization, the friends of female education are called upon for assistance in the shape of money...
...subjects affecting the interests of the students are appointed to prominent positions on the faculty committees, are strongly in favor of consultations between the instructors and the students, and even advocate that whenever the faculty take an action that affects either a student or the students in general, the reasons for that action be made known. At present it is not the custom to announce the "why and wherefore" of most of the movements of the authorities, and for that reason some of their decrees have seemed arbitrary, although in fact they were well-judged. In questions on athletics, however...
...general table can be accommodated at Miss E. M. Cotter's, 10 Oxford street...
...General Grant is reported to have said to a gentleman in New York yesterday that he would never allow his friends to propose to Congress again the passage of a bill placing him on the retired list with the rank of general...