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...22d of February is Washington's birthday. It is observed as a legal holiday throughout the land. State and national governments unite in doing honor to the memory of almost the only man in our history concerning whose character and services there is no difference of opinion. Banks, post-offices, and stores are closed, and business is everywhere suspended; but Harvard College, on its little spot of ground in Cambridge, Massachusetts, utterly ignores the fact that such a person as Washington ever existed or had a birthday, and calmly goes on in its daily routine. We are forced...
College Days (Lancaster, Pa.) hears it whispered in College circles that a public demonstration of some sort is to be made at the College on the 22d. We will not be outdone by our Lancastrian friends; there will be public demonstrations here on the 22d, not only in M. U. and L. H., but in U. E. R., Holden, and U. 19 and 23. The Days thinks that no great holiday should be allowed to pass by without some effort to render the occasion memorable. Our beloved Faculty entertain the same opinion...