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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...another column we clip a letter from the Advertiser, in regard to the voluntary attendance at prayers and church, showing the position which many influential men are last taking on this subject. It has come to be regarded as only a question of time when the present rules in regard to attendance at prayers and at church must be abolished or changed in such a way as to give much more freedom for the students to follow their inclinations in such matters than they have at present. It seems to be a step in the right direction to find...
...final examinations in English 5 will consist of a theme on some subject taken from the life of Macaulay in the "English Men of Letter" series, or from the recently published life of George Eliot by Mathilde Blind. Members of the section are expected to read one of these books, and, if possible, in addition, the poems, essays or history of Macaulay or some work of George Eliot of an autobiographical nature, such as "Mill on the Floss," or "Scenes from a Clerical Life...
...Donovan Rossa has a letter from Portsmouth, Eng., dated April 21, stating that two men are on the steamer City of Paris, who were selected out of forty to come to New York and assassinate Rossa...
...lost his profession. But by and by a cloud arose on the horizon. The protectionists had been too fast in drawing their conclusions. It seems that there is one man left at Yale besides Prof. Sumner who remains unconvinced, and he has the bad taste to write a long letter to the New York Evening Post saying so. This graceless young man, forgetting the courtesy of the superintendent and the happiness of the operatives, takes an altogether mercenary view of the matter. He calculates that the orange trees and other luxuries at Willimantic costs the country annually over a million...
...executive committee of the association shall decide all points arising under these rules, and all points not covered by these rules, and if in their judgment the spirit though not the letter of these rules has been violated in any case, they shall take what action they think...