Word: greate
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first of the series of lectures arranged by the Harvard Finance Club was given last evening in Sever Hall by Professor Andrews of Brown University. The speaker began by describing the great evils arising from fluctuations in the value of money. He said that falling prices may cause as much loss in the wealth of a nation as a national war. It is the inevitable tendency of gold and silver to increase in value notwithstanding the immense quantities added every year from the mines and the substitution of credit systems for money. The metals are subject...
Thirty members of the Manhattan Athletic Club are going to New Haven on March 2 and 3 to take part in the Yale and Connecticut National Guard games. Cunneff, the great Irish runner, will accompany them...
...winter games of the Union Club will, as has been announced in the CRIMSON, take place on next Monday, Feb. 27th, in Music Hall, Boston. The last games of this club at the New England Fair Building four years ago aroused great interest and were attended by large numbers of prominent people, both ladies and gentlemen. Entries have been received from Harvard, Yale and Technology. Harvard has almost decided to send a tug-of-war team, and Technology will do so if Pierce can be persuaded to anchor. The sparring contests will be spirited and interesting. The weights...
...large number of entries have been made for the sparring championship contest to be held in Music Hall, Boston, Feb. 27. Entries have been sent from Cambridge, Wakefield, Roslindale and Portsmouth, N. H. A great deal of interest has been manifested by the amateur sparrers of Boston, and each gymnasium will be represented by several men. The sparring weights are 125, 140 and 160 pounds limit for the feather, middle and lightweights. Only amateurs will be admitted to the competition. They entry book will be open till Friday, February 24, and all applications should be sent to the sectary...
...Theatre, in aid of the Longfellow Memorial Fund, on the evening of the poet's birthday, Feb. 27th, promises to offer an unusually attractive programme. The object for which the entertainment is to be held is so worthy of encouragement, and the interest in the matter is so great, that the affair cannot fail to be a success. Several well-known authors have shown their interest by offering to read selections from their own works. Among them are the following: Julia Ward Howe, Edward Everett Hale, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, William Winter, Louise Chandler Moulton, John Boyle O'Reilly, George Parsons...