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...Memorial Hall the price of board has averaged within a few cents of $4.00 a week all through this year and last year. The figures given in the catalogue, $152 00, are therefore correct. It is absurd to say that the price of board "really runs much higher" than $4 25 a week...
Under the direction of Mr. W. F. Ganong, instructor in Botany, the Summer School of Botany will be held at the botanic garden, beginning on Wednesday, July 2d, and lasting four weeks. The course will consist of lectures upon the morphology and physiology of the higher plants, together with laboratory work upon materials furnished by the garden and illustrating the principal orders of plants. The elements of the microscopic anatomy of plants will also be taught, by laboratory work supplemented by informal lectures...
Pole vault, Crane, '90 and Mason '91, were entered from Harvard, Ryder from Yale, Curry from the B. A. A., and Ewing from Amherst. Crane and Mason both failed on the first trial. The bar was gradually put up higher, and the vaulting made more difficult. Mason was the first to drop out at 8 ft., 7 inches. At the next raise Ryder and Ewing both failed at first and finally secceeded in getting over the bar. All the men but Curry failed at first when the bar was put at 9 feet, 4 in. Crane dropped out at this...
Ben-My-Chree.At the Boston theatre last evening Mr. Wilson Barrett and a very fall company gave the play "Ben-My-Chree." The play itself is of a higher order than are the usual melodramas, but there are a number of striking and discordant inconsistencies in it. Mr. Wilson Barrett's acting was more than excellent, and Mr. George Barrett showed a good deal of merit. Miss Eastlake had some force but rather overacted her part. On the whole the play is well worth seeing...
...reason, there is a close connection between indirect taxation and pauperism, since the poor are obliged to buy in small quantities commodities upon which indirect taxes have been levied, and the price of which has been raised correspondingly. For a small quantity of a commodity always brings a proportionately higher price than a large quantity of the same commodity...