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...Right jollily does the editor drag the burrs out of the exchange basket and examine the contents in search of his favorite food, and much does he find. But the poorest picking is, on the whole, in the Harvard papers - the Advocate and the Lampoon. The Crimson hardly comes under the head of a literary production, but as a daily, is one of two, and only two, in the college sense of the word. The Advocate is the truest literary production of college journalism in our exchange basket. A little heavy for a b1-weekly, perhaps, but when...
...Providence police have made a raid on rooms in Brown University in search of stolen signs; the college is in a wild state of uproar...
Upon arriving in the town, the happy Harvard men, hoarse from their continued cheering, proceeded to raid the shops in search of crimson cloth and ribbons. Early in the afternoon a processi??? as formed, headed by the band of the Fifth Connecticut Infantry. The members of the victorious crew came first, followed by the members of the 'Varsity nine, and escorted by 300 students, decked with red ribbons, and provided with brooms. After parading the principal streets, and cheering until worn out, the jubilant Cambridge men betook themselves to the cars, and left the town in peace...
...Savage, the distinguished antiquarian, visited England, and, assisted by Edward Everett, at that time the American minister, made what was thought to be an exhaustive search for records of John Harvard. Mr. Savage's efforts were so fruitless that, although $100 were offered for each of five lines giving information about him, nothing new was discovered. Mr. Henry Waters, the agent of the New England Historic-Genealogical Society, has since taken up the work, and by most assiduous labor has found what he thinks will lead to the dissipation of the mist which has so long overhung the early life...
...first lecture was "Reason why free trade has not made greater advances." In the United States, Russia and Germany, protection never flourished more than in the last twenty-five years. Americans are substantially protectionists to-day. Protection has grown. England's free trade policy was due to a search for cheaper food and a zealous attack against the aristocratic classes. Had the agitation been raised on any other grounds than those of cheaper food it is a question whether England would not yet have protection. England, however, is the exception. As a rule protection has been advancing, because...