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...entire day. Most of them realized the exhaustive nature of the display and were already fortifying the inner man with sandwiches, cheese, bits of sausage, and bottled beer. Anxious fathers and mothers were wedging a slow and painful progress through the crowd, towing some half dozen shock-headed, wide-eyed offspring of graded ages and heights. Surely little Fritz and Heinrich and Annchen and Kaetchie must see the gay colors and the prancing horses, albeit the pressure of the crowd, forcing their tender necks against the ropes over which they hung on tiptoe, threatened slow strangulation, if not instant decapitation...
...size of the quarterly number for the present will be 112 pages 8vo., with such supplementary sheets as occasion may require; and the subscription price will be two dollars per annum. The number will be made up of (1) a few signed articles, coming, it is hoped, from a wide range of writers both within and without the University; (2) shorter papers and notes on topics of interest; (3) correspondence showing the movement of economic thought in the principal foreign countries; (4) a condensed bibliography of publications in political economy for the preceding quarter; and (5) such reprinted articles, documents...
...journal is not to represent any special school or body of economic doctrine, but is to be devoted strictly to the promotion of scientific investigation and discussion, a wide diversity of opinion among the writers of signed articles may be expected, the journal assuming no responsibility and guaranteeing nothing except that the views set forth in its pages are the well considered opinions of writers having a good claim to the attention of an intelligent public...
...Harvard quarters are directly opposite the starting point, on the east side of the river. The house at first sight impresses one as being a pretty summer cottage. It is surrounded on three sides by a wide piazza, and standing as it does on a little bluff, commands a fine view of the river. The quarters are painted a deep crimson, - and on the flag-staff, which is raised above the roof, floats a large flag, which has seen service for many years. On the ground floor is a large and airy dining room, and a kitchen, well supplied with...
...second floor is devoted entirely to an exercise hall, and will be 121 ft. long, and 76 ft. wide. Here will be all the apparatus for exercise, and no pains will be spared to make the appointments of the room as complete as possible. This floor is lighted from the side windows, and also by a shaft from the roof. About ten or twelve feet above the main exercise hall, is suspended the running track, which arrangement will obviate the necessity of having the track in the main hall and will thus allow so much more space for apparatus...