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...National Swedish Concert Company gave a concert here in the lecture course last Tuesday evening, one of the finest concerts that has ever been given in Hanover. Their singing was of a very high order, and in their picturesque costumes they made a most attractive sight...
Certain petty abuses connected with prompt attendance at recitations have sprung up lately, which, trivial as they may appear at first sight, are extremely annoying. We refer especially to the way some men have of carrying five, ten and fifteen minutes after a recitation has begun before entering the class room. In some of the nine o'clock recitations, the classes rarely get settled down to work until a quarter of an hour after the proper time. This negligence could be overlooked if it were exceptional, but once the example of coming in late is set, it is soon found...
...Hallowell was then introduced. He said that our entire political fabric rests upon the ballot box, and when that is corrupted the beginning of the end of a Republican form of government is in sight...
...paper on factory life, the writer gives an account of the practice of black-listing mill hands prominent in labor organizations. If the testimony of the unfortunate black-listed men is true (and there seems little reason to doubt it) they have fearful grievances which demand redress. We lose sight of the fact that in these days of striking laborers, that the employers are not always the most upright of men. The employers are not the only sufferers and the claims of the employed must be regarded before labor troubles will cease...
...Babbitt has recently published a small pamphlet on "Reading German at Sight...