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70Students' furniture repaired and reupholstered at very slight cost. Camp chairs let for all occasions...
...cost of instruction for five weeks in theory and practice, beginning Wednesday, July 6, is $50 - one-half of this amount to be paid on application for the reading course, the remainder on entering the gymnasium...
...Shaughnessy opened for the affirmative. He argued against the large military establishments maintained by the great powers on the ground, first of all, of the enormous expenditure which they involve. At the present time, three millions of men are under arms in Europe, at an annual cost of more than $500,000,000 a year...
...Williams replied, on the negative, that the armies of Europe have been one of the greatest civilizing forces which have developed and built up that continent. It was this very system which uprooted feudalism, and rendered the barbarity at tending it no longer possible. It is true that armies cost something, but so do peaceful governments, yet no one would favor the suppression of the latter. The very nature of our civilization demands that these armies shall be maintained. They have also a historical justification. The Persians. the Egyptians, and the Greeks all maintained large military establishments. Armies protect commerce...
70Students' furniture repaired and reupholstered at very slight cost. Camp chairs let for all occasions...