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...common belief among a certain class of people that the Catholic church cannot exist in the neighborhood of American freedom. In fact fifty years ago every one thought of America as a Protestant country. But ever since the first small group of Catholics came to this country, fourteen years after the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers, the Catholic power has been struggling bravely and successfully for its existence...
...compromise between the two plans mentioned would bring about the desired result. The general tables might well be continued with the proposed reduction in the number of students there, but, instead of reducing the total number in the hall, the number at each club table could be raised from fourteen to eighteen. This increase at the club tables would almost exactly balance the decrease at the general tables. Some club tables already have two extra men, and suffer no inconvenience; that four extra men would destroy, or even seriously impair, the pleasant social relations now existing in the hall seems...
shall merit it shall remain in the college until they shall respectively arrive at between fourteen and eighteen years of age; they shall then be bound out," etc. Progress in the school-room is deemed the only proper standard of merit, and all pupils who become fifteen years of age and fail to reach the fourth school, after from five to nine years' instruction, will be required to give place to those on the list of applicants for admission...
...varsity squad fourteen are trying for battery positions, fifteen for the infield, and ten for the outfield. Cook has not yet begun practice but will come out later...
...committee which have in charge the sale of tickets for the Harvard Night, last evening completed the allotment of seats. The number of seats taken is unexpectedly large, amounting to nine hundred and forty. The total seating capacity of the theatre is fourteen hundred, so that all but four hundred and sixty seats were applied for. The total number of one dollar seats is 357 and of these 265 are sold; the total number of two dollar seats is 216, and 192 are sold; the total number of three dollar seats is 833, and 483 are sold. The total number...