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...Harriman delivered the opening speech on the affirmative. Mr. Cleveland is entirely right, said he, in persisting in his steady opposition to the extravagant pension grants of our national Congress. We are liberal enough with our pensions already. Had the Dependent Pension bill become a law, it would have taken at least $50,000,000 out of the national treasury, and increased our total pension list to over one hundred millions. We should have been taxed as heavily for this purpose as are many of the countries of Europe which have to support large standing armies. Many of our most...
...Cambridge at his class reunion in 1836 he wrote "Fair Harvard." He was then the guest of Miss Fay - a niece by marriage - who owned the building on the corner of Mason and Garden streets. While her guest, Mr. Gilman, occupied the room over the parlor on the right looking out upon Shepherd Memorial Church, and it was here that he composed his famous verses. Since the Fay house has become the property of the Annex, Mrs. Caroline Howard Gilman, the widow of the Rev. Samuel Gilman, has presented to this room a picture of her husband, under which...
...GriswoldFlorimel, a wandering bard, the victim of sundry mishaps, which are all set right in the last...
...this year are in a sense new men, and that they have been able, on account of the tardy spring, to play together and learn each other's ways during one short week only, one is inclined to think that the men are working in the right direction, and that they did as well as could be expected on Saturday. That they beat Dartmouth is sufficient criticism on their work...
...jail, where we find them when the curtain rises on the second act. The pirates behind the bars answer their lamenting betrothed in a song from Falka. The girls departing leave them to their fate. Follows a conversation between the pirates in the jail on the right of the stage, and Stubbs in stocks on the left. The captives following the directions of an oftconsulted manual, mesmerise the prison-bars and escape, singing a chorus from "Hermanie;" they leave the stage to Stubbs, who sings a gag song written for the occasion by Mr. Pepper, and after some very comic...