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...special body of affiliated clubs. Subject to the amateur definition, the big events for eights, fours, pairs and singles are open to the whole world. The colleges (but not the university boat clubs) of Oxford and Cambridge compete at Henley. So does the Leander Club which is formed almost entirely of Oxford and Cambridge men. Amongst other competitors may be mentioned the London Rowing Club, the Thames Rowing Club, the Kingston Rowing club, the Moulsey Boat Club, the Royal Chester Rowing Club, and the school boy clubs of Eton and Radley. The course is one mile and 550 yards...
...fact that our clothing, whether made to order or ready made, is sold at lower prices than are asked for the same grades elsewhere. This is the case always; and just now, as the winter trade is almost ended and the spring trade has not yet begun, our prices-for the sake of keeping our help busy-have been made peculiarly attractive...
...decided effort is being made by a number of prominent Cambridge citizens to induce the West End Railroad to provide better accommodations for its passengers at the Harvard square transfer station. Although more passengers are transferred there daily than at almost any other point in the West End system, only one small room has been provided; and the constant overflow of passengers into the street which necessarily results is alike an inconvenience to passengers and a disturbance to traffic...
...musical part of the performance are completely successful. The scenery makes an appropriate back ground for the costumes, which are of great richness, and merely as a series of striking pictures the play is worth seeing. Added to this, however, the acting of the characters in the cast, almost without exception, is of real merit...
They are undesirable material for American citizenship on account of their heriditary instincts and general character. Almost half are Buddhists and the illiteracy is very high, notwithstanding their boasted educational system. We shall expect political responsibility of the Mongolians to whom we will deny political rights. The natives show their poor self-governing qualities in the ease with which foreigners have ruled them since the revolution...