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...Mark Hopkins of San Francisco has subscribed $1000 to the building fund of the Zion Wesleyan College of Salisbury...
...current issue of the Nation contains a review on "American Constitutions: The Relations of the Three Departments as Adjusted by a Century. By Horace Davis, of San Francisco, Cal. [Nos. IX.-X. of the Third Series of the Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science.] Baltimore...
...following papers will be on file in the Harvard Reading Room: dailies, Boston Advertiser, Post, Transcript, N. Y. Times, Tribune, Springfield Republican. Weeklies, Philadelphia Times, Cincinnatti Gazette, Chicago Inter-Ocean, Louisville Courier Journal, New Orleans Picayune, Atlanta Constitution, Burlington Hawkeye, Texas Siftings, San Francisco Bulletin and Argonaut, The Beacon, Youth's Companion, Spirit of the Times, Turf, Field and Farm, N. Y. Sportsman, N. Y. Clipper, Harper's Weekly, The Nation, Frank Leslie's Illustrated, Illustrated London News, English Illustrated Magazine, Pall Mall Budget, London Times, Punch, Puck, Judge and Life. College papers, Yale News and Lit., Amherst Student, Princetonian...
...them feel that they were as degraded as they were painted. The course of social conservatism was advanced by the very existence of political sin, because the personal ambitions of various leaders were pitted against each other and the result was often not so very bad. The progress of San Francisco was identical with that of the whole state. In 1848 it was a little village of four or five hundred inhabitants. In five years it became a city of 25,000 population. Tents were not comfortable, and rude houses of canvas and pine were rapidly built. The Parker House...
...rags would burn and so the San Franciscans found out. The fire of May 4, 1851, destroyed $7,000,000 worth of property, and was called the great fire. For lack of water the engines stood by as silent evidence of the city's official disapproval of fires. Thousands of people were left homeless. In 1851 and 1856 were formed the two famous vigilance committees. The committee of 1856 was highly organized. The committee of '51 had something of the form of an outburst of popular feeling. In closing, the lecturer said he could not help drawing a lesson from...