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...heard, and on whose advice he could rely. It would not be a difficult matter for the University to prepare a list of the men in the University, both in the Faculty and in the student body, from each start and from each Western city of over thirty-five thousand inhabitants, and to mail such a list to the Western boy writing for information...
...more important to the well-being of a state than the increased production of commodities, is the upholding of public morals. We are on the crest of a commercial age. Our foreign commerce alone exceeds our past records, three thousand, three hundred millions of dollars for the past year, and year by year it will mount higher, if we do not lose sight of economic laws and of the moral and human principles in which these laws in the last analysis are embedded...
...first prize of one thousand dollars and a second prize of five hundred dollars in cash are offered for the best studies presented by class A, composed exclusively of all persons who have received the bachelor's degree from an American college in 1896, or thereafter; and a first prize of three hundred dollars, and a second prize of one hundred and fifty dollars in cash are offered for the best studies in class B, composed of persons who, at the time the papers are sent in, are undergraduates of an American college. No one in Class A may compete...
...next morning the Clubs arrived in Chicago and spent the forenoon in sightseeing. After luncheon they attended a tea and dance given for them by Mrs. Walter C. Larned. The concert in the evening at Orchestra Hall was the crowning success of the whole trip. An audience of two thousand completely filled the hall, and gave the Clubs as hearty a welcome as they have ever received. Every number was encored, and the Glee Club Quartet was received even more enthusiastically than ever before. The concert was followed by a smoker at the University Club, and a cotillion given...
...Professor Norton, the present number of the Graduates' Magazine would be of special interest. Besides the reports of college affairs, news from the classes, and book reviews, one may find here topics ranging from the Law School Library and the efficient services of the Appointments Bureau to the ten thousand guinea pigs which are quartered in Lawrence Hall and have all unwittingly contributed much to science and the fame of Harvard. A valuable article on Charles Chauncey makes clear that aristocracy as well as democracy presided over the inception of the University, and will doubtless attract more visitors than before...