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...have been interested in looking over a list of questions discussed at Harvard in ante-revolutionary times by candidates for the degree of Master of Arts. As early as 1743, Samuel Adams chose the question, "Is it lawful to resist the supreme magistrate, if the commonwealth cannot otherwise be preserved?" He argued that it was lawful, and thirty years later he stood first in advocating such measures. In 1765 Elbridge Gerry, who became one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, answered the following question in the affirmative: "Can the new prohibitory duties, which make it useless...
...members of the class have been very backward in sending in their order lists, and but very few have yet been received. If anyone wishes to have his photographic order filled before commencement it is absolutely necessary that his list should be sent in before the spring recess, and to make perfectly sure of getting the photographers lists should be sent in within a week. The few men who have not yet accepted their negatives are urged to do so at once, as by not doing so they delay not only their own orders, but also those...
...scholar without exacting hand to any scholar without exacting any return. The most striking feature of his career is the great labor he has bestowed on the works of other men. As this in most cases received but slight acknowledgment, It is impossible to give a complete list of his works, which are very numerous. He was one of the American committee appointed to assist in the revision of the New Testament...
...lack of information as to what lines of goods may be ordered through the society. It should be borne in mind that not everything can be bought at reduced rates by the society, but that reasonable efforts will be made to obtain many things not in the following list which will be continued in the next bulletins. Members are requested to make note of the list and to learn, from actual experiment, in what ways the society can serve them. Besides books, stationery, and coal and wood, members can order: All the leading American and foreign periodicals; art photographs, from...
...presence of forty men-of-letters in this country who are worthy of membership in an American academy, must feel that if such a body is to be chosen by popular vote he should have a voice in the selection. Therefore we call upon our readers to send in lists to us, which we will promptly forward to the Critic. The lists should contain the names of forty American authors who are thought worthy of a place in an American academy. The representatives of all branches of literature should be included-historians, novelists, poets, playwrights, scientific writers, and theologians...