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...army, be was well qualified to accept the position of professor to which the university saw fit to call him at the inception of a Scientific department. For more than thirty years he has filled the position with credit to himself and the university. Few, indeed, can show a record of longer service faithfully performed. Another leader has fallen, another gap been made in the ranks of those whom the university and its students have been accustomed to depend on and look up to respectively as the educational forces of Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/13/1885 | See Source »

...intend within a few weeks to elect two editors from the freshman class, if we can find candidates who show sufficient ability in their contributions. We regret that as yet we have seen little evidence of this ability, but we still hope that the ability in question is not wanting, but only dormant. It is true that we have received several contributions which have been satisfactory, but we do not feel called upon to make our choice of editors from such a small number of competitors. We therefore hope that the members of '88 will awake to the fact that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/10/1885 | See Source »

...beneficial effects of Protection upon the laborer are disputed, but, thanks to two Massachusetts statisticians, there can no longer be doubt upon the question. It was admitted that wages were higher here, but it was claimed that cost of living was proportionately high. Col. Wright's figures show the falsity of this. Wages in Massachusetts are 62 per cent. higher than in England, while the cost of living is only per cent. higher. United States census reports confirm this. Mr. Edward Atkinson's statistics give further proof of the benefits of Protection. He shows that while the profits...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Protective Tariffs III. | 1/10/1885 | See Source »

...number of the Conference Committee has been "interviewed," and what follows, though not in any sense official, is authoritative, and will serve to show our readers the present position of the committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Committee of Conference. | 1/8/1885 | See Source »

First, two rivals, Messrs. Nostaw and Colonel, who both love Miss Harvard Crewel. Colonel is getting the best of it,-why, Nostaw has no show at all! Miss Crewel puts perfect confidence in Colonel, leaving poor Nostaw out in the cold entirely. What can Nostaw do? Colonel must be cut out-but how? Let us see. Nostaw has two friends. two very intimate friends, but neither of them is a minister-there's where the rub comes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Reversible Story. | 12/19/1884 | See Source »