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With absolute impartiality and marvellous clearness Mr. Storey then went on to sum up the position of the Republican party on the question of civil service reform. He read extracts from party platforms formulating sweeping pledges and then the statistics of the post office where thirty-two thousand fourth class post masters alone were removed under Mr. Wanamaker's regime. And this in spite of the declaration that Republican promises were to be fulfilled without regard to the attitude of Democratic administration. He praised Secretary Tracy's reform in the navy yards, but showed that it had not received President...
Seats for twenty thousand will be provided at Springfield for the Harvard-Yale game...
...Abbott took for his text the 13th and 16th verses of the 11th chapter of Hebrews. He spoke of the necessity of progress. Pagan countries are stereotyped, they are printed from stereotype plates cast two thousand years ago. The religion of the church, of the priests, of the ministers has not always been forward, but the religion of the Bible is forward. We should not look backward for our ideals but forward. The world is better today than it was yesterday, it will be better tomorrow that it was today if we do our duty. Don't be discouraged...
...familiar words, in the afternoon. Moreover, it is a tune that gains peculiarly by added volume of sound. As a matter of course, not only the seniors would sing it, but the other classes and the graduates would rise and join in. This would make a chorus of a thousand voices As anyone knows who attended the under-graduate exercises at the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary in 1886, the result would be no anti-climax. It would be a revelation of the power that lies in one college song, when it is given as it should be, to stir...
Saturday afternoon the 'varsity eleven played the first game of the season with Dartmouth. A crowd of two thousand spectators were gathered on Jarvis Field and applauded the teams as they made their appearance. Cranston acted as referee and Dean as umpire. At 3.45 p. m. the teams lined up as follows...