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...account of which Harvard College is compelled to stop for a moment her daily routine of recitations. The annual day of prayer for colleges, a day in which nearly all other colleges suspend recitations, is totally disregarded at Harvard. In fact, it is hardly ever heard of here. Washington's Birthday and other legal holidays are disregarded in the same manner. But yesterday an event occurred that demanded at least some little respect from the faculty. The funeral services over one of our instructors were held in the chapel yesterday noon. During the hours that these last rites were being...
...important conference of government officials, naval officers and congressmen was held yesterday, in Washington, to consider our naval needs and plans to supply them. A fleet of steel cruisers was deemed necessary...
...English writer states that Washington's "oak," Cambridge, is so called because "the father of his country signed the Declaration of Independence under...
...Fitz John Porter will be in Washington this week to present his claims for re-instatement to the army...
Henry James, who is now one of the lions of Washington society, has a number of stories told at his expense. Here is the latest: He asked a clever young lady if there was not a river near Washington called the Potomac. "Oh, yes," said she, "and I should think you would know all about it, because there is a place on it called Mount Vernon, where a man named Washington lived. You are sure to have heard of him, you know, because his father was an Englishman...