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...debating societies. One question would be discussed each month, the remaining meetings of the different societies being disposed of as they should severally see fit. By such a simultaneous discussion a great demand for information would be created, and, if the topics were of questions of the day, wide-spread public interest would be aroused. This fact, leading publications in the country fully realize. The North American Review stands ready to give space for an article on both sides of the questions each month. The Arena and Public Opinion are also ready to take hold of the matter...
...society in the past has sent many emigrants from the southern states to Liberia, and there is at present such a wide-spread interest among the Negroes in colonization that the society is trying to gain friends who will aid in transporting those who wish to become citizens of the republic on the west coast of Africa...
...Yale 'varsity crew has ordered a new paper shell from Waters. It will be sixty feet long and twenty inches wide-similar to the boat in which the eight rowed last year...
...paper shell has been ordered from Waters in Troy, and Davy is building a new barge for the crew. The barge will be only twenty-eight inches wide instead of thirty-six as the old one was, and it is thought that this will effect a great saving of time in the work of the crew, as the change from barge to shell will not be so marked as heretofore...
...home of the ape and gorilla is in the big forest, three thousand miles long and twenty-five hundred miles wide, situate in the equatorial regions of Africa. In this forest are trees some one hundred and fifty to two hundred feet high, and others even five hundred feet in height. Under these is the vast jungle, impenetrable except as one follows the path of the natives form tribe to tribe...