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...Williams Weekly, president; Josephine H. Batchelder of the Wellesley Magazine, vice-president; G. L. Miner of the Brown Daily Herald, secretary and treasurer; H. H. Titsworth of the Amherst Student, member of the executive committee. The college papers represented were: The Aggie Life, Amherst Literary Monthly, Bates Student, Bowdoin Orient, Brown Magazine, Brunonian, Colby Echo, The Mt. Holyoke, Smith Monthly, The Tech, Trinity Tablet, Tuftonian, Wellesley Magazine, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and Williams Weekly...
...eighth and last lecture in the course on "Bimetallism" was given by Gen. Walker last evening. He began by reviewing at some length the substance of the ground covered in former lectures. He then traced the effects produced on the industry and trade of oriental nations by the demonetization of silver in other countries. While in other countries silver had fallen to one-half its former value, in the east its value remained almost constant. Oriental countries held silver as their greatest metal. This tended to discourage other nations in their trade with the orient. As a consequence, industry...
...Orient accept occidental christianity...
...traveller in the far east, has been a member of the New Zealand Parliament and a student of the British dominions in the Pacific. Hence the knowledge of these regions shown in his story, which shifts from the England of a generation ago to the penal settlements of the Orient...
...Japan to the civilizing influences and to the commerce of the West was an event whose importance in the world's history is just beginning to be recognized, now that her achievements in war have indicated the leading position she is to take among the nations of the orient. An interesting addition to the knowledge of the early days of Japan's new life is given in Dr. W. E. Griffis's biographical sketch of Townsend Harris, the first American envoy to Japan. Townsend Harris was undoubtedly the greatest of the foreign diplomats sent to Japan, and his influence...