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Cornell has purchased of P. T. Barnum the skeleton of the dead elephant whose head was presented to the college directly after the fire. It is proposed to make a comparative study of this skeleton with the bones of an extinct mastodon which were recently found in Western New York State...
...middle-weights, and lastly by the heavy-weights. After each of these contests, the victorious man is elevated to the shoulders of his classmates, but as the other side do their best to prevent this, he is soon pulled down. Then follows the rush proper. The freshmen take the western part of the field and the sophomores the eastern, each side calling its class numerals to aid in getting its men together. The classes then form in opposing columns at some little distance from each other. Each man locks arms with the man on either side and places his hands...
...Hallowell, '88, negative, closed the diapute for the principals, declaring that the Western lands would never have been developed if George's ideas had been carried...
Near Memorial Hall was recently set a charming statue of John Harvard. The young clergyman sits in his chair, his pulpit robe thrown around hime, his book open on his knee, his thin face and tranquil, hopeful eyes turned toward the western sky. He is thinking of the days that are to be. He hears nothing of the vigorous tide of life now flowing round his chair. He knows nothing of past success or present attainment. His face shows no trace either of self-distrust or of self-satisfaction. But the quiet unconsciousness with which his trustful hope looks toward...
...sanctioned violence, and even aided in murder; (c) they persecute non-members; (d) they prevent the employment of capital, cause stagnation of business, and, hence, great loss of wealth; (e) they drive many of their members to crime and dissipation through loss of employment.- F. W. Taussig on south-western strike in Journal of Economics, Jan. 1887; Chicago Tribune, Feb. 13, 1887: Nation, Vol. 42, pp. 338, 401, 402, 418, 440, 441; also Vol. 43, pp., 469, 470; Boston Herald, March 21, 1886; Bradstreet...