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...evening of May 3, there will be public literary exercises in the Metropolitan Opera House, and on the evening of May 4, Delmonico will provide the annual convention dinner, tickets for which will be $6 each. George William Curtis, Everett P. Wheeler, Rev. Edward Everett Hale, and the president, Hon. Joseph H. Choate, will speak at the public exercises. The graduate members of the society will give a reception at the house of the New York Graduate Association, No. 427 Fourth Avenue. The committee on arrangements is composed of the following gentlemen: Benjamin W. Franklin, chairman; Robert F. Bixby, Alfred...
...SUCCESS is a good memory, without which the student, business man or scientist loses what he gains. Professor Loisette's wonderful discovery enables his pupils to learn any book in one reading. Endorsed by Prof. Richard A. Proctor, the astronomer; Hon. W. W. Astor, late U. S. Minister to Italy; Hon. John Gibson, President Judge 19th Judicial District, Penn.; Hon. Judah P. Benjamin, the famous jurist, and hundreds of others who have all been his pupils. The system is taught by correspondence. Classes of 1087 at Baltimore, 1005 at Detroit, and 1500 on return visit to Philadelphia. Address Prof. Loisette...
...adjourned meeting of the Overseers was held at the office in Boston on Wednesday morning. Hon. Leverett Saltonstall presided at the meeting. The elections of George L. Goodale, M. D., as Fisher professor of natural history; of Benjamin Osgood Pierce, Ph. D., on Hollis professor of mathematics and natural philosophy; of John Trowbridge, S. D., as Rumford professor, were confirmed. A communication was received from Hon. Theodore Lyman, presenting his resignation as a member of the board, was read and the resignation was accepted. Minority and majority reports were received from the committee on athletics and were laid...
...account of "Some Unpublished Washington Portraits." The relations which existed between Washington and the artists Robertson and Peele are recounted and a just appreciation manifested for the services which those artists rendered in preserving for posterity the features of our first President. "The Acquisition of Florida," a contribution from Hon, J. L. M. Curry, Minister to Spain, is a historical sketch of the troubles between the United States and Spain during the first years of the republic, and of the European complications which finally ended in the cession of Florida by Spain to the United States. This article is followed...
...lecture, given last night in Sanders Theatre, Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge said that the first thing in any discussion should be to ascertain what the question at issue really was. The free traders are not willing to allow the question of protection to go fairly and squarely before the country, but load it with cries and catches, many of which are entirely without foundation. It was said, for instance, that there were 4,000 articles that pay duty-the President even says so in his message-but Mr. Lodge, after making a careful count of all the enumerated articles, finds...