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...field sports of Michigan University last week, one rather novel event was to capture a greased pig. The prize for capturing the unfortunate animal was a set of Dictens' works valued at twenty-two dollars. The Co-operative society of the university offered the prize. THe Michigan Argonaut says that "this new and most enjoyable feature of the exercises is one that should be retained in the future...
...that for the tribe, which we reach in the ant. The ants in each hill cooperate in labor; but their sympathy does not extend to ants of other hills. The sympathy for the species is the next step in development. This is best seen among domestic animals in the pig of the southern forests, where a cry of distress from one of them calls hundreds of others to his assistance. The highest development of sympathy is seen in the monkey. Then comes the lower man. From them to the higher man the development is marvelous, introducing paternal love, love...
...first field-day at Michigan University is to come off May 12. Among other contests we note "chasing a greased pig...
...authors of them were never to be molested by those whom they abused. Gladstone in his Fifth Form poem eschewed all personalities, but conveyed his opinion with great vigor on some of the abuses rife in the school, and in particular on cruelties that used to be practiced towards pigs at the Eton Fair that was held every Ash Wednesday. A barbarous usage had arisen for boys to hustle the drovers and then cut off the tails of the pigs. Gladstone gave great offense by remarking that the boys who were foremost in this kind of butchery were the first...
...bill in 1861. The object of the bill was to cause duties to return to what they were in 1846, and it was intended to be protective. Its distinguishing feature was the substitution of specific for ad valorem duties. The chief changes in the taxation were upon wool and pig iron. For the first time in the history of tariff taxation "compensating duties" were introduced. The general effect of this bill was to raise duties above those fixed by the bill...