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...committee of the Governing Committee of the Board of Overseers met Wednesday evening at the Somerset Club. The Presidents of the fout classes had been invited to attend this meeting in order that the Overseers might ascertain more fully the feeling of the undergraduates in regard to the proposals made at the last meeting of the Board. The meeting was entirely unofficial and was held simply with the view of discovering how much truth there is in the articles which have recently been published, and also of discovering whether or not the tendency of the undergraduates in regard...
...college for the purpose of nominating candidates for the presidency of the United States. It will be conducted similarly to the one held here with so much success four years ago. The Union is going is going to canvass the departments of the University in Cambridge to ascertain presidential preferences, and announce the result at the convention. The canvass will begin on Tuesday evening, when ballots will be distributed at dinner at the tables in Memorial. Every one in the hall is urged to fill out a ballot and drop it in the box for newspapers near the door...
...lecture, given last night in Sanders Theatre, Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge said that the first thing in any discussion should be to ascertain what the question at issue really was. The free traders are not willing to allow the question of protection to go fairly and squarely before the country, but load it with cries and catches, many of which are entirely without foundation. It was said, for instance, that there were 4,000 articles that pay duty-the President even says so in his message-but Mr. Lodge, after making a careful count of all the enumerated articles, finds...
...petitions for changes in elective studies presented before March 6 have been acted upon by the faculty and are in the hands of the secretary. Petitioners should call at the office at once and ascertain what further action is necessary in their cases...
...hope of obtaining an alliance of the nations. A more hopeful scheme would be to keep prices on a level by swelling or contracting the amount of money in circulation according as prices tend to fall or rise. A composite standard of value should be adopted in order to ascertain any change in prices. The coinage of the country should be based upon gold, but silver could be made to play an important part in the form of legal tender tokens. The amount of gold in circulation could be kept the same, all changes in the circulation being made...