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...number of candidates has now been reduced to nineteen men, but in a few days more it will be further reduced to sixteen. From now, strict training will be maintained and a regular system of work mapped out. The men are now practicing the full stroke with the exception of the arm break...
Class (a) of the legal tender notes, the "greenbacks," are the result of the financial legislation of the Civil War. For the last sixteen years their volume has been fixed, because, on being presented for redemption, they are reissued. Identical in legal qualities are the Treasury Notes, issued in pursuance of the Sherman Act of 1890. Although, in theory, they may be shifted into silver notes or silver dollars, as a fact, they, too, have remained a fixed quantity. There is a general impression that these notes are different from the U. S. Notes, in that, while the latter will...
...Sixteen candidates have come out for the Pennsylvania crew, in answer to the call of Captain Bull...
Yesterday afternoon the number of candidates for the 'varsity crew was reduced to sixteen men. These men have been selected by Captain Bullard because of their general ability and their unity in weight, size and promise. That Donald, an entirely new man, should be placed on the first crew is a good example of the policy to be pursued this year, viz: that the eight is to be made up of men with the best physique and general spirit who can be taught to row properly. Following is the order in which the two crews rowed...
...some sixteen months ago that the first stories were heard of Turkish atrocities committed in Armenia. Christendom was startled; but it was slow to awake to the terrible reality of the situation, to realize that Armenia is now and has long been the scene of horrible cruelty, savage ferocity, and brutal lust, such as is unsurpassed in the history of the relations of man to man. It is no exaggeration to say that in about a year and a half sixty thousand martyrs have suffered at the hands of the fierce Turks. No longer ago than Saturday there came news...