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...heat was raised with a strong blast of enthusiasm, but all with no result. I even swept the whole range of a young lady's conceits, from crimps to ceramics, and then got only a few monosyllabic replies. Surely Hercules in my shoes would have found a thirteenth labor. Yet if the old maxim properly valued silence, I had found a treasure; and I began to appreciate the sort of experience that prompted Horace to sing of his "golden Phyrra...
...Hugh McCulloch will lecture this evening in Sanders Theatre, on "Taxation." The last lecture in this course will be given May 20. Subject: "Capital and Labor...
...present themselves at the examinations for Honors. As a number of the candidates are always unsuccessful, it would be much better to wait till the list of those who obtain Honors is published, instead of printing the names of the unsuccessful candidates as well. A man who undergoes the labor of preparing for these examinations, and yet fails, is naturally sensitive about having his failure made known, and I can say for myself that I should have had much more hesitation about going in had I known that that fact was to be spread abroad. Hardly any one knew...
...clock, beginning on Tuesday evening, May 6. The subjects are as follows: Money, May 6; Bi-metallic Money, or the Silver Question, May 8; the Representatives of Money, May 9; the Representatives of Money (continued), May 13; National Debts and Foreign Exchange, May 15; Taxation, May 16; Capital and Labor, May 20. These lectures will be open to the public...
...position. My observation has abundantly convinced me of this, and I always refer to it with pride. Any movement from within or without tending to disturb this natural and healthy state of things by raising the artificial cry of alms or charity, where good sense and manliness discover only labor rewarded and ability recognized, should be most unsparingly denounced...