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...ancient Greece. Works of this kind are expensive, and at the end of the second year the books in the library obtained by direct purchase will have cost $2500. Of this sum the committee voted from its funds $2000." The remaining $500 was the gift of a friend, whose name is withheld. A list of the theses which were presented by six of the seven members of the school during the first year, is given, together with the names of the successful candidates. The theses which are recommended for publication will be issued with the reports of the different directors...
...Then, with an eye to beautifying their grounds, the students plant trees and shrubs about the buildings. Thus, in course of time the surroundings of their study hours will be shaded with groves of trees and clumps and hedges of bushes and perennial flowering plants. Attending the ceremony and friends of the students and usually an elaborate program is carried out. Music and speeches are indulged in. The trees are selected with great care that the chances of dying may be small, and when they are planted are named or friend. The idea of such a general tree planting...
...pettifogging lawyer of today has his strongest friend and aid in the weak juryman whom he can wheadle into returning any verdict he may desire. The speaker declaimed against the prevalent custom of forcing a verdict by compelling the jury tostay out until a verdict is reached. Mr. McInnes, L. S., closed the negative. The speaker did not believe in trial by jury and thought that a jury is a body that is very easily influenced. "Better a new jury than a wrong verdict." We do not at present need the jury, but we should keep it to protect...
...good showing,-though I must admit, sad as it may seem, that Yale sent more men to the Tribune than any other college, not even excepting Harvard. Of course, it is true that many of these newspaper men hold only subordinate places; in fact, I know of one friend of mine, who has attained a great title, but little pay, on a small paper in the West, and who is an instance in point, He wrote recently, that he was holding the position of third assistant editor. I regarded this as a remarkably good position, until I learned-through other...
...house in which I was born is situated on Lake street, number 17. It is near the residence of the Hon. John G. Carlisle, Speaker of the House of Representatives, and an intimate professional friend of my father. In this house I have resided all my life, excepting the six last years,-two spent at Exeter, four at Cambridge. Graduating at the Covington Grammar school in 1876 and the High school in 1878, I spent two years at Exeter, preparatory to entering Harvard. I passed at the July examination, 1880, with honors and conditions alike invisible. Travelling in Italy during...