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...game, we have an opportunity of repaying, to some extent, the hospitality we have received in our visits to Montreal, and which has often been mentioned in this paper. We cannot provide for our Canadian friends such entertainments as we saw in Montreal, but whatever is in our power will certainly be done...
Birds and streamlets hail the spring-time, for his power has passed away...
...Lowell, of the Senior class, a prize of fifty dollars for a dissertation on "The Bank of England as a European Power between the death of Elizabeth and the death of Anne...
...ultimate government was in the hands of an elective body, holding their places for life. This body contained from twenty to thirty members. We are in the dark as to its powers. How it was elected we do not know, but from one authority we learn that it was elected by and composed of persons who seem to have been otherwise wholly unconnected with the town. The immediate government was vested in a Legislature of one chamber, which had also judicial power, elected in some unknown way, and responsible, not to the people, but to the higher body. The executive...
...grieve to say, a class of students at Harvard whose every act is a lie; and, hard as the duty is, it is the duty of every pure-minded man to hate them, to shake the dust of their rooms from his feet, and to use all his power to crush them out of existence...