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Lost - Last Friday or Saturday a black silk umbrella with black and brown wooden handle. Will the finder please communicate with 19 Matthews...
Found - At the Harvard assembly, a white silk handkerchief with the letters E. W. G. in monogram. Owner can have it by applying to Drury...
Although Dartmouth is not worthy a place in the base ball league in the opinion of Harvard, we should not be afraid to stake our spare shekels on the following nine against any which our gentlemanly, silk-hosed cousins could muster: Cram, '81 (Capt.) c.; Rundlett, '81. p.: Partridge, '82, 1b.; Parker, '82, 2b.; Nettleton, '84, 3b.; Cushman '83, s. s.; Webster, '82, l.f.; Coombs, '83, c.f.; Hale, '84, r. f. Substitute battery, Gay and Gulick, '83. [Dartmouth...
...have been no injustice done any one. But as no changes of consequence were made, and high protective duties still remained in force, capital sought investment in industries which were well protected, trusting in the continuance of these duties. As a result several new industries, notably the manufacture of silk, have arisen, which would be ruined at once if a sudden lowering were made in the tariff on these articles. As these investments were made in good faith, justice demands that no sudden action be taken looking toward abolition of duties on these articles, but that the duties be lowered...
London swells, it is said, are wearing suits, made by Poole, of bright silk plaid, the colors resembling a Roman scarf. It remains to be seen whether America will adopt this latest freak of British barbarism...