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Professor F. W. Taussig spoke informally last night to the members of the Finance Club on the silver question, describing in a very interesting manner the present status of the free coinage controversy. He spoke first of the visit of the committee of Boston business men to Washington. In the House Finance Committee before which the Boston men appeared the free coinage advocates were very aggressive. There was a general feeling that if the bill could be brought before the House it would be stampeded through without difficulty; consequently the silver men on the finance committee were constantly trying...
...Yale Glee Club will take a trip during Easter Holidays giving concerts in Orange, N. J., Old Point Comfort, Washington, Philadelphia and Brooklyn...
...pleasing contrast with the spirit which gives us "Feb. 22, Sunday, Washington's Birthday; a holiday," is the announcement that the Law and Divinity Schools will have one whole day for a holiday in addition to the Sunday which the rest of us are to enjoy. It is a great comfort to know that there are in the University some departments which know what a holiday is and how it should be observed. We congratulate the students in the Law and Divinity Schools on their good fortune...
Just across from the old Washington elm stands a large brick building known as the Fay House, once occupied by Edward Everett. Here in a small front room many years ago Mr. Gilman composed the song so dear to us all, "Fair Harvard." The property has passed into the hands of the Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women, and is now known as the Annex...
Finally the college has received a number of material gifts, among which may be mentioned as curiosities a miniature portrait of George Washington, from a member of Parliament from Mid-Worcester, an ancient watch, a bronze bust of George Bancroft (now in the Library), and a portrait of Galileo for the Observatory...