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...hear on one day that the employees of the Cambridge Railroad threaten to strike; on the next that the scholars of public schools in various parts of the country are demanding longer recesses; and on the next, as a third great blow to education, that the tennis "shacks" want higher wages. What is Harvard coming to? Each hour almost the evils of strikes seem to be closing in more seriously upon her. It is hard to say where the next blow will be. Perhaps the goodies will call for more pay and fewer rooms. But it is to be hoped...
...account. The discipline and instruction of sectarian schools is likely to develop men prejudiced in favor of particular church dogmas and creeds. Said a seminarian, who had always attended the schools of his church, in discussing evolution with a gentleman who seemed open to the doctrine, "What, do you want it proved true?" Too often the life of the teachers in parochial schools is so wrapped up in their profession that the education they impart fits one for the church and nothing else...
...scheme is under consideration for bringing to Watertown a drove of ponies from the ranch of Mr. Benj. Brewster of Cheyenne. They will all be warranted sound and thoroughly broken to the saddle. They will cost about $120.00 per head. Gentlemen (whether members of the club or not) in want of a pony, are requested to sign the paper in the rooms, or to send their name to Mr. Marshall P. Williams (Country Club, Brookline), who will answer any inquiries regarding the consignment...
...separation of the grand British Empire, and offered some able legal arguments in favor of their theories; but they rather stultified themselves by urging that the Irish were now unfit, would perhaps always be unfit to govern themselves; that they did not wish to govern themselves; that they wanted independence and to smash the British empire; that they did not want to be separated from England; that they were a degraded race; that they were an enlightened race, but not yet sufficiently advanced to use their new rights...
...some members who have been negligent of late and should be awakened to the interests of the band. A brass band is an honor of which the college ought to be proud, and those who are able to play any band instrument should not let this organization decline for want of torch-light processions...