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...President Diaz of Mexico will visit Washington next week...
JUNIOR THEMES.Theme 5 is due March 20. Subjects : 1. Washington as a Military Commander. 2. The Style of the Letters of Junius. 3. Why are the Wages of Women lower than those of Men? 4. The New Tariff. 5. Is there such a thing as American Literature? 6. Journalism as a Profession. 7. Gentleman-farming. 8. A Metrical Translation of one hundred lines from any classic or foreign poet. 9. An Account of the Assassination of President Lincoln...
...Treasury officials at Washington are still puzzling over the proper interpretation of the tariff bill as applied to banks...
...Washington, Jackson, Van Buren, Harrison, Taylor, Fillmore, Lincoln, and Johnson did not go to college. Grant was educated at West Point, the two Adamses at Harvard; Jefferson, Munroe and Tyler, at William and Mary's College; Madison at Princeton, Polk at the University of North Carolina, Pierce at Bowdoin, Buchanan at Dickinson, Hayes at Kenyon College, Garfield at Williams, and Arthur at Union. Out of twenty-one, thirteen of our presidents received collegiate training...
...most interesting case of all, perhaps, is that containing autograph letters and poems. Here are collected letters from O. W. Holmes. Jefferson, Washington, John Quincy Adams, and a note from A. Lincoln, inviting the Hon. C. Sumner to accompany him "for half an hour" to the inaugural ball, March 5, 1865. There is also a finely written letter, dated London, April 28, 1758, in which Franklin begs the college (Harvard) to do him the favor "to accept a Virgil I send in the case, thought to be the most curiously printed of any book hitherto done in the world." Some...