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...appreciative audience. President Eliot and Deputy Collector Fiske of the Custom House were present. The lecturer opened by saying that commerce, though bound down by chains, has done more than either science or literature for the progress of humanity. Having established our rights to think and worship, we now want liberty to trade. What would you say if Congress passed laws compelling ministers to use a certain form of argument? Yet law compels you to trade in a certain way. The carrying trade of all other nations is on the increase, while ours is on the verge of annihilation...
DEAR HERALD : I have heard so much lately about that much-abused institution, sneeringly called the modern girl, that I just want to say a few things about her myself. I don't know whether it is "all put on" or not, but do you know that the very ones who talk the most slightingly about that "flimsy creachaw, you know," are the ones who are constantly trying to catch the "wegulah buttah-fly," and who usually get nothing for their labors but - left...
...such men should not get a recognition similar to that given the men who take classical courses. A great many men would be willing to do extra work in chemistry, for instance, if they could get some such encouragement as second-year honors would give. They do not want to devote enough time to these courses to take final honors, but are willing to devote some extra time to a course if honors were the reward...
...constantly increasing is shown by the large number of candidates for the Boylston prizes who entered the recent preliminary contest. There has been much dissatisfaction among those who took elocution this year with the frequent resignations, leave-of-absence and so forth, and with the generally negligent manner and want of interest shown by the authorities...
...season continue as gloriously as it has begun, excelling our fondest hopes," says the News in relation to Yale's recent successes in base-ball. "We don't want Yale to be disapointed, but we think it rather reckless of her to place her 'fondest hopes' in the base-ball arena," comments the Princetonian. "Both Harvard and Princeton have shown themselves strong at the bat. The Dartmouth nine, we learn, is batting poorly, and Amherst has done nothing at all as yet, and does not seem over-confident. Brown boasts of having discovered another 'phenomena,' and quite raves over...