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...rates. While we do not intend to advocate either side of the great struggle which is going on between the tariff men and the revenue reformers, the subject certainly deserves to receive careful consideration at the hands of every student, if he has not already done so. The present canvass, which is, however, confined to the two upper classes, will serve to bring the subject fresh to the minds of every one and offer to every one an opportunity of putting himself on record as in favor or against a reduction of the tariff...
...presidential canvass at Madison University resulted as follows : Edmunds, 39; Blaine, 26; Tilden, 8; Arthur, 3; Bayard, 3; Lincoln, 2; Logan, 2; Cleveland, 1; Conkling...
...presidential canvass at Cornell showed Edmunds to be the favorite of the faculty and Blaine second. The undergraduates reversed this order...
...making long trips into the woods, to places where one is obliged to carry his own boat, the canvass canoe will be found to best answer the purpose, as it is ragged on a wooden frame which folds up into a small compass. They are usually square at the ends and are consequently slow sailors. Moreover, there is one serious objection to them, as the writer has learned from real experience, and it is this-a canvass canoe which weighs when new only twenty pounds will, after a month's knocking about, be found to greatly increase in weight. This...
Such great care is usually inconvenient to exercise. As to the make of canoe to purchase, it may be said that for wooden paddling canoes, the Stella Marries, Racine, Shadow and Princess, are popular ; while good paper ones are built by Waters of Troy. Good canvass canoes are the Osgood's folding, and Canadian canoes. This brief summary includes only a few of the standard makes...