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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Somebody has been looking over Princeton's list of graduates who have become prominent in public life, and finds that it includes two signers of the Declaration of Independence, twenty-seven delegates to the Continental Congress, one President (Madison), two Vice-Presidents and five nominated as candidates, seventeen Cabinet officers, one chief-justice, five associate justices, seventeen foreign ministers, fifty-one Senators and 115 Representatives. besides two speakers of the House...
...furnished by Henry Ditson, of the firm of Wright and Ditson. Many of the best tennis players in the country are members of the club, among whom are Messrs. R. D. Sears and Pettit. The club now contains about 1200 members, and there are many names on the waiting list. It is probable that the membership will soon be considerably increased. Many of Boston's leading citizens are members, and it is their idea to make this club of as high a social order as any club in Boston. The situation of the club building is a decidedly favorable...
...following is a list of choice holiday books, nearly all extra bindings...
Also others that are not mentioned in the list...
...annual catalogue of Trinity College has just been published. It shows that the number of undergraduates has increased and several new courses have been added, in practical work in the chemical and physical laboratories and in the observatory. An addition has been made to the list of scholarships, and the prizes which have heretofore been given in history and political science have been consolidated and will be given this year for the best examination in Broyce's Holy Roman Empire. Dr. Smith, the president, has been tendered the bishopric of Ohio, but as his presence could ill be spared, great...