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...advertising the celebration, a stimulus is given to wide participation in the competition by special prizes for artists, art students, and undergraduates. There is a second prize of $500 and another of $300 for that design which is a public choice. Votes of visitors to the exhibitions will betaken to determine the latter. These exhibitions will be held in Boston, New York, Pittsburgh, and Chicago. For the best poster on the advantages of electric light, heat, and power submitted by an art student, the society will award $200, and another $200 will be divided into prizes for the five best...
Great surprise was occasioned by the announcement that a certain prominent book-seller of Cambridge, frightened at the brilliant prospects of the Co-operative Association, has betaken himself to intimidating his fellow-tradesmen. This man has threatened the most dire evils to Cambridge merchants who shall support or aid in any way the attempts of the students to assist themselves in the matter of purchases. "I will arouse," said he, "such a powerful public sentiment against the thing that any merchant who aids these fellows will regret it." There is no man in Cambridge who has made as much money...