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There was once a man with very powerful eyes, who could read by starlight and never even required a light in the greatest darkness. Now it happened that a party of wise men were passing through the country where the man with the powerful eyes lived. They heard of his great power, for his fame was spread through all the land, and searched him out and persuaded him to join them in their travels. They came to a country where there was no sun, and he was their guide; they descended into the deep dungeons of old castles...
...large audience which listened last evening to Prof. Thompson's lecture on Protection was amply repaid by the eloquent and convincing discourse which they heard. It was a presentation of historical evidence which seems to indicate the wisdom of our present tariff policy. There is no better way of arriving at the truth of a theory than by studying its workings in the past, it has given use to the Historical School of Economists. England, the champion of industrial economics, first demands our attention. She was for a long time, in the very early stages of development, a free trade...
...break into a room in the north entry of Hollis. The burglars were frightened away, however, by the occupants of the room before they succeeded in effecting an entrance. As this occurrence has been reported to the police it is safe to predict that nothing farther will be heard from...
...known to them, that all persons studying in the alcoves of the library, have an intense curiosity to hear whatever is said in their neighborhood. Now some of the late arrivals have not yet acquired the courage to converse loud enough in the reading room to be distinctly heard. They communicate with each other in an audible murmur, which arouses the curiosity and interferes with the work of everybody near them, but gratifies the curiosity of no one. Consequently, there is a general suspense and impatience, which is very telling on the nervous force of some of the weaker students...
...into which are turned at present all the strength of body and skill in team work which are found in the college. Lacross if properly fostered, ought in time to take a position equal to those sports, might by its manly attributes help to do away with the much heard of and greatly bewailed brutality in college sports...