Word: newe
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...Have new jackets so often...
FROM the Yale Courant we learn that the University Nine are to have a new and gorgeous uniform. "The material is a Scotch cassimere of a light gray color, with blue trimmings. The shirt is to be open before, like a coat; the sleeves without cuffs, but trimmed with blue at the wrists. The "Y" is to be wrought in blue silk on the breast. Over this is to be worn a loose roundabout without trimmings. The belt is blue and wrought. Knee-breeches are to be discarded, and the breeches will reach to the ankles and button over...
THIS bill, whose defeat caused the Gladstone Ministry to resign, was to the following tenor: The old universities were to have their charters withdrawn, and from their endowments a new National University of Ireland was to be established, in which the only requirement for degrees should be the passing of the examinations...
...been granted to Roman Catholics and Non-Conformists only by sufferance and custom. But this measure, though approved by the liberal and thoughtful men of all parties, did not suit the Roman Cardinal, who insisted that Trinity and Queen's should be left as they are, and that a new college should be endowed, to be under the exclusive control of the Roman clergy. To such a project the Premier could not have given his support if he had wished; for it would have involved him in the inconsistency of urging the Non-Conforming Scotch and English to disestablish...
...Bloody Ninth" a bloodless sword. But not only does he raise and support armies; he creates navies. He buys a line of steamers, comprising the finest boats in the country; but their chief value to him, after all, is in adding to the many titles he already enjoys the new one of Admiral. He drives a team which he is sure cannot be excelled in Gotham, and confidently believes not much inferior to that of Phoebus himself. In these and many other pursuits, besides his own regular and legitimate calling, undertaken less for pleasure than for notoriety, he has succeeded...