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...Francis Calley Gray, of the class of 1809. Mr. Gray had gathered the engravings in the course of his extended travels abroad, and had taken great pains to have them all of the highest quality. The result was a most valuable collection, numbering in the rough seven or eight thousand, and so selected as admirably to illustrate the history of engraving and printing from the time of the old masters. The Randall collection, while almost four times as large, was selected with less discriminating care, and is of far less artistic value. Both collections, from the large number of portraits...
...very generally given to young children. Man then lived only to drink all he could all the time; the veteran soldiers and sailors of Wellington and Nelson are notorious for their drinking propensities and powers. In Berlin, at a meeting of famous naturalists and doctors, about four thousand in number, no less than fifteen thousand three hundred and eighty-two bottles of different kinds of wine were consumed, to say nothing of quantities of beer...
...Club said that there was little likelihood of war. Our foreign relations are more peaceful than they have ever been before. Arbitration is coming to be used more and more to settle disputes between nations. And even if a war should arise the addition of from three to five thousand men would make little or no difference. The position of this country as the best market for the products of European nations also lessened the chance of war; for no one quarrels with his best customer...
...hoped to secure a sum of four or five thousand dollars by a large number of small subscriptions. While the appeal for these is most naturally made to those who were Dr. Peabody's students and to those who knew him personally, it may fittingly meet with response from the undergraduates who have found here such pleasant memories...
...Chicago concert was the crowning success of the whole trip. An audience of over two thousand completely filled the Central Music Hall and gave the clubs as hearty a welcome as they have ever received. Every number was encored and Wilder made even a greater hit than he had ever done before. The audience, in the last number, were apparently determined not to let him go until he had exhausted his repertoire and it was not until he had been called back nine or ten times that the applause died down so that the Glee Club could start "Fair Harvard...