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BOSTON, March 24. - Local forecast for New England, Monday: Generally fair, continued warm, southwest winds...
...Professor Norton's opinion that there should be no formal address given this year, but rather some prominent man should simply read the record of those Harvard men who lost their lives in the Civil War. Professor Norton thinks, also, that the local G. A. R. post should be invited to be present at the exercises, as on Memorial Day a year ago, and that, if possible, the Glee Club should sing songs of a more patriotic character than on similar occasions heretofore, thus increasing the spirit of enthusiasm and patriotism...
...mock trial, conducted almost entirely by Harvard graduates, will be given under the auspices of the local post of the Grand Army, in Union Hall, March 27. E. B. Hale L. S. '75 will be the presiding judge and W. E. Russell '77 and J. J. Myers '69 will be associate judges. W. A. Bancroft '78 and L. G. Blair '78 will be the lawyer and associate on one side and E. R. Champlin '80 and W. E. Hutchins '79 on the other. A. M. Howe '69 will be clerk of the court...
...toward political liberty has produced a change of conditions: Sen. Turpie in Cong. Rec. Dec. 17, '91, p. 79. - (1) This change demands popular elections. - (c) Wishes of the people now ignored; e.g., an election in Rhode Island: Public Opinion, XII, No. 20 (Feb. 20, '92). - (d) National and local politics now too much confused: Nation...
...plans not involving the elimination of private profits have failed to diminish waterially the evils of the liquor traffic. - (a) State prohibition does not prohibit: W. B. Weeden, Working of Prohibition, 56-93; Boston Herald, Jan. 24, '95. - (b) Prohibition by local option merely changes the place of sale. - (1) It does not effectively do away with the evils of liquor consumption. - (c) High license has also failed to diminish the evils: W. J. McFarland, Facts, not Opinions, 15-17. - (1) It simply makes a few dealers more greedy for large sales: E. L. Fanshawe, as above...