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Most of the Harvard College buildings are separated into two or three portions by thick brick walls, which would act effectively against the spread of fire. In all the new building, and this includes every hall except Holworthy, Hollis and Stoughton, each room has a shield of plaster entirely around it on walls, ceiling and floor, so that in case of fire in any room the smoke could not penetrate to other rooms. - [Boston Journal...
President Arthur and General Grant are to act as pall-bearers at the funeral of Ex-Governor Morgan in New York today...
...Treasury System." The lecturer traced the growth of the present system from that formerly in vogue, and afterwards set forth in clear light the defects that now embarrass it. The undesirable relation of the Secretary of the Treasury with the money market, brought about by the act of 1864, in which it is enacted that the banks shall not be depositories for receipts for customs, and which, therefore, forces the treasury to hold in its vaults large amounts of specie, was discussed, as well as the slow and irregular way in which specie can get out after it has once...
...Taussig's lecture last night on the "History of the Tariff Legislation of the United States" drew an audience that completely filled Sever Hall. The lecturer dwelt particularly on the acts of 1789 and 1816. The first, which levied very low duties, ranging from five to fifteen per cent., did not touch upon those industries which have since become the great objects of protective controversies. The controversy of 1789 has little connection with those of subsequent years. In 1808, after the embargo, manufacturers, in the sense that we understand them, began, and the textile fabrics and other goods of that...
...misdemeanor, and that they are content to reason from effects to causes and motives without regard to the man's word. No man in college was more trusted and respected than Mr. S., and those who know him know that he would not be guilty of a dishonest act such as the faculty have practically convicted him of. To obey the requirements of the sentence inflicted upon him is tacitly to admit his guilt. He has shown his manhood by refusing to submit, preferring to sever his connection with the college. Confident in his own mind that he has committed...