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...deposited in a box, and buried in the dry cellar of the venerable mansion where Washington was wont to pass many pleasant holidays. The losses sustained by the last individual owner during the war, the fear of losing the medal by theft, fire, or accident, and the sense of relief expected to follow the knowledge that the medal was held in a secure place, induced the Widow Washington to part with...
...House the postal appropriation bill was considered. Both houses passed a bill appropriating $100,000 for the relief of sufferers by the late Western floods...
...general relief committee has been organized in Haverhill, and earnest efforts are being made to resume business immediately. The donations and subscriptions up to last evening amounted...
...observer to draw? In a homely phrase, "Go slow." Two axioms in this subject are everywhere admitted: Firstly, that college students, as a class, are subjected to and suffer more extortion than any other part of the community, and secondly, that it is only through their own initiative that relief and reform can be secured. Cooperative schemes anywhere are doubtful undertakings, doubly so in college matters; and therefore, although the need of action on our part is universally admitted, it behooves us to look carefully in the first place to our beginnings; then not to attempt too much at once...
...having that knowledge afterwards clinched by the painful process of examination. This result can only come if students exhibit in ways more or less direct the positive and active effects of these lectures on their own knowledge and thoughts. For the present, at least, these lectures form an interesting relief from the irksome grind of formal courses. As the Chronicle says on this subject, "New lines of thought are followed; old ones are made more attractive, and a new spirit is imparted both to scholar and professor." A new subject will be treated this year by Mr. G. S. Hall...