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...abstract of Wagner's work on "The Present State of Political Economy," and some tables and statistics. It is announced that papers will be undertaken during the year by Gen. Francis A. Walker, J. Lawrence Laughlin, A. McFarland Davis, Carroll D. Wright, F. W. Taussig, W. C. Ford, Simon Newcomb and other prominent economical writers. The paper will be published four times a year, price $2.50 per annum, on sale at Sever...
...James Lee Mitchell delivered disquisitions. The degrees were then conferred upon the graduates in the various departments of the university and finally the exercises closed with the conferring of honorary degrees upon the following distinguished gentlemen: L. L. D. to James Russell Lowell, Prof. F. J. Child, Prof. Simon Newcomb of Washington, and Prof. R. C. Jebb of Glasgow, Scotland; D. D. to J. Henry Thayer of Cambridge, and John F. Moors of Greenfield; and A. M. to william Green Binney...
...rules yet in any athletic sport which did not prohibit unfair play, because it is always possible that some "rough" or "sharper" may make unfair plays. One might as well, following their line of thought, give up the Christian religion because of the ten commandments; or like St. Simon Shylites, withdraw from the society of mankind and sit on the top of a pillar because of our criminal laws. Foot-ball can never be anything but a rough, manly sport. For my part I am unwilling to believe that any such low spirit has crept into the game...
...French Senate, Saturday, discussing compulsory education, rejected, by a vote of 167 to 123, an amendment by M. Jules Simon, requiring school-masters to teach their pupils duty toward God and the country...
...professor in Mrs. Burnett's novel, "Through One Administration," is said to be a picture of Prof. Simon Newcomb of the National Observatory...