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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...spite of excessive duties on woolens the manufacturer is unable to retain the home market; the amount of importation steadily increases every year.- U. S. Almanac, 1889, p. 318; Whitman's pamphlet on Free Raw Material, p. 19; Bulletin of Wool Manufactures for November...
...years Goethe, as prime minister, fulfilled the duties of court, engaged in private theatricals and devoted himself to literature, composing some parts of "Faust" and other noted works. On September 17, 1786, Goethe started for Italy where he spent two years in acquainting himself with Rome, the home of the Caesars. Returning from Italy, Goethe devoted himself to the natural sciences, and it is from this time on that the lives of these great poets, Goethe and Schiller go hand in hand. Schiller was born on November 10, 1759, ten years after his contemporary. He was a sickly child...
Clermont Livingston de Peyster, a former member of the class of '89, died on Monday evening, December 2, at the residence of his uncle in Philadelphia. He entered as a regular member of '89, but in his sophomore year left college and went abroad to study. Later he returned home and was attacked by consumption which was the cause of his death. Although he was in college so short a time, many of his classmates will remember him with feelings of sincere affection and his death will be a sad blow to them. The following resolutions have been adopted...
DEAR SIRS.- The state of Tennessee has purchased the Hermitage the home of General Andrew Jackson and turned it over to the Ladies' Hermitage Association, an organization composed of prominent ladies of the different states, whose object is to purchase the valued furniture and relics of General Jackson now in the Hermitage, also to restore to its original beauty and grandeur, the historic mansion now quite dilapidated, and save to the nation a sacred spot where cluster memories of holy domestic life and unwavering patriotism...
...McCall, Harvard '88, at one time a student in Cornell died at his home in Bath, Friday, November 22. For some time he was on the staff of the New York Press...