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I have mentioned so far only the more specific social enjoyments. Most of the fraternities board together, each at some private house or occupying a table at one of the hotels. There are many little eating clubs among the neutrals, some of them having their tennis courts and other devices...
In speaking of endowments the writer very justly says: "It is a pity that the donors could not be judicious as well as liberal. Nearly all their gifts have the same vicious quality that has hampered the endowments of our colleges from the beginning; they are specific instead of general...
A large audience listened to Dr. Sargent's lecture yesterday afternoon on the effects of the use of tobacco. The specific cause for the existence of the desire of the human system for some substance of a narcotic nature, said Dr. Sargent, cannot be stated. It is sufficient to say...
An unusually large audience assembled in Sever last night to hear Mr. Taussig's last lecture on "Tariff Legislation." The preceding lectures have taken up and described the legislation prior to the war of 1861, and it was with the act passed in this year that Mr. Taussig began. The...
The third lecture on the "History of the Tariff Legislation of the United States" was given last night by Mr. Taussig before his usual large and attentive audience. The first tariff mentioned was that of 1832, which virtually annulled all the abominations of the tariff of 1828. This tariff was...