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...House military committee yesterday practically agreed upon the terms of the bill to place General Grant upon the retired list, with the rank of general...
There are some parts of the library which are, however, almost unknown to the students, either because we are not permitted to explore them or because we have not the time. The one place, perhaps, most unfamiliar to the average student and most frequented by strangers is the visitors' room. Here are collected more articles of interest to the student of Harvard's history than perhaps in the entire remainder of the building. The class albums; the autograph letters of celebrated graduates, such as Sumner, Emerson, etc., etc., and the visitors' book, are but a few of these objects...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: At a meeting of the board of directors at Memorial Hall, three hundred dollars were voted to pay for fitting up the office of the auditor. In the first place, I think it would be interesting to the college to know the reasons for this expenditure. Does the hall greatly need such an office at a time when the question of the price of board is always a matter of considerable dispute and dissatisfaction? If we really need this additional accommodation, is it fair that it should all be paid for by this year's boarders...
...matter of putting a desk and railing in the auditor's room - these repairs were found to be absolutely necessary, since the auditor did not have sufficient office room in which to transact the necessary business. There was no place up stairs in which to keep securely the books and papers of the office, consequently they were kept in a very inconvenient place down stairs. By the new arrangement the auditor can keep all his books and papers in his office, and thus ensure a speedy and convenient transaction of all business...
...almost in the same breath, are mentioned the hackmen, florists, and opera-house and hotel managers. These stood outside the gate and "rubbed their hands with glee as the lucre rolled in." What depth of expression and of insight into human nature is here expressed. A poor, common-place mortal would have supposed those hackmen were rubbing their hands to keep warm, but the poetic soul of this Yale editor saw that the motion displayed "glee as the lucre rolled in." Just where or into what the lucre rolled he neglects to tell...