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...Robert R. Newell, who died in Cambridge on the 23d inst., was one of the students who left Harvard in 1861 to enter the Army of the North. At the time of his death he edited the Index Reporter and was a member of the Boston...
...tariff, entirely different from that of 1833. The Whigs being then in power, passed a bill for the levying of very high duties, and the bill was prompted through party feeling entirely. The tariff of 1846 was a free trade tariff, and it was framed by Robert J. Walker, Secretary of the Treasury. Thus specific duties were shown to be better than ad valorem duties, on account of the easiness of collection. In 1857 there was a general reduction from the tariff of 1846, in order to lessen the revenues of the country, which were overflowing. This was the last...
Among the list of men recently admitted to the Massachusetts bar appear the names of the following '79 men: George D. Ayers, Robert P. Clapp, Fred'k H. Ellis, Chas. S. Hanks, George C. Hodges, Thomas J. Homer, Frank A. Houston, Francis Martin, Henry C. Mulligan (class orator), and William C. Tarbell...
...final session of the meeting of the American Institute of Mining Engineers was held in Boston yesterday, and Robert M. Hunt of Troy, N. Y., was elected president for the ensuing year...
...part of Holmes field to practise their strange sport. In the fall of 1879, however, the prospects of the game brightened. In that year the following set of officers were elected to the association: Wright, '81, president; Manning, '82, vice-president; C. F. Squibb, '81, secretary; Bradley, '82, treasurer; Robert Sturgis, '81, captain of team. Of these the two best players and most enthusiastic workers were Squibb and Sturgis...