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...cease to exist, since it had fallen completely into the hands of demagogues. The negative gave an able review of the good work done by the party in the past, and claimed that it could and would continue in its labors. Messrs. Barnes, Jones, Saunders, Hayes, McDuffee, Carrier and Hoar made remarks from the house. The question was decided in the affirmative...
...special meeting of the overseers of Harvard College, held yesterday, at the office of the treasurer in Water street, Boston, Hon. E. R. Hoar in the chair, Henry Grosvenor Carey was appointed instructor in vocal music for the current year; Frederick Bradford Knapp, instructor in surveying and drawing; Dwight Moses Clapp, clinical instructor in operative dentistry. It was voted that a school of veterinary medicine be established in the university, and that its faculty be constituted in accordance with the statute relating to faculties. The following were added to the committee on languages: Henry W. Haynes, Francis Peabody...
Some years ago, while Mr. R. H. Dana was running for Congress against Gen. Butler, there was a dinner at Parker's (in the large room, No. 6, fragrant with the memory of many a symposium), and a young gentleman was seated between Judge E. R. Hoar and Mr. Dana. There was a general discussion upon the merits of the candidate, which reached back and forward. This young gentleman - younger then than now - listened and gradually grew merry with the thought of the perturbation which the planetary orb of Butler was producing in the political system...
...Upon this motion, the gentleman in the chair (Judge Hoar) will rise and say: 'It gives me uncommon pleasure to listen to the remarks and the motion of my friend on the left. The State, the college and the community owe him a debt of gratitude. It gives me pleasure to listen to the motion and the remarks, and I trust the proposition will meet with general approval...
This badinage went on for some time. Judge Hoar laughed. Mr. Dana looked grave, and at last said: "This is well for a jest, but don't say it aloud! Don't! A loud word in the Alps sometimes starts the avalanche...