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...following letter chiefly interesting to general amateur bicyclists, has been sent by the Bicycle committee to the leading sporting and bicycle journals...
...postponement of the sophomore dinner till next Friday night gives general satisfaction, especially to the Boston men in the class...
...orator of the occasion. Two years ago Wnedell Phillips delivered his last public speech. It was directed to the educated men of the country, in behalf of individual abstinence from intoxicating liquors. The argument was based on the double ground-personal benefit, and patriotic devotion to the general good...
Among the gentlemen on whom the honorary degree of LL. D. was conferred, were James Russell Lowell, Dr. J. S. Billings, Assistant Surgeon General U. S. A., Professor W. H. Green of Princeton, Dr. Fordyce Barker of New York, and Principal Dawson of Montreal. At the banquet Prof. Lowell responded for literature. "There is no country in the world that owes so much to literature as Scotland. I bring with me the felicitations of three American universities, and their Godspeed to the older university here. We feel as strong as ever that blood is thicker than water. I warmly reciprocate...
...early history of this manufacture. In 1787 the first cotton mill was started in Beverly. At that time to separate the lint from the seeds was the hardest work. This difficulty was removed by the invention of the cotton gin in 1793. About 1810 power looms were put into general use. The speaker then continued to briefly trace the history of the industry down to the present time. During the war of the 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...