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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...Remembers not the past. Now is its whole...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE RIVER. | 10/24/1873 | See Source »

...extravagance and luxurious living has brought about. The "form and pressure of the times" have not been subdued to their proper confines, but have been allowed to increase and swell beyond proportion, and with these neither "fate" nor "misfortune" has had anything to do. The records of the past week have made known a heavy embezzlement by the cashier of the Treasury Department of the State of New York, amounting to $ 300,000, developing a system of fraud almost unparaleled. Within the past year defalcation after defalcation has come to light both in cities and in country towns, - Boston, Brooklyn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RECENT EVENTS. | 10/24/1873 | See Source »

...world of business gigantic failures and the enormous power exerted by the stock-broker in connection with the daring speculator have revealed a state of affairs as melancholy as it is reprehensible. The past year has been peculiarly marked by such events. A distinguished clergyman lately said, he was glad to have lived at the time of our Great Fire, because he had seen it bring out the courage and energy of the citizens of Boston. Without taking exception to this remark, we should like to see another kind of fire, - a fiery exorcising of that spirit of evil which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RECENT EVENTS. | 10/24/1873 | See Source »

WHEN permission was first granted to the undergraduates by the Corporation to use Lower Massachusetts for a reading-room, an association was at once formed and the hall well furnished. It was supposed by all that the only thing lacking in past years had been the countenance and aid of the college authorities in what was conceded to be a great want here, and a want in marked contrast to the privileges of some other colleges. But to the surprise of all, before the Reading-Room had completed a year of its existence, the interest in it seemed to wane...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE READING - ROOM. | 10/24/1873 | See Source »

...share in a new room they are about to engage for their use during the year, and it is thought that an arrangement of this kind will be for the advantage of both societies. It may be here added that the success attending the above-named society during the past year, the first of its existence, is one of the best guaranties of the success of the present plan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRENCH CLUB. | 10/10/1873 | See Source »

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