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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Judging from the appreciative reception "The Buccaneer" met with graduate's night, the play is bound to be a success, and the music especially popular. F. E. Barry '97, the composer, was presented with a gold and ivory tipped baton by the principals and members of the chorus, and at the close of the first act both Barry and Stephens the librettist, were loudly cheered...
Bishop Lawrence will preach the last sermon in the St. Paul's Society course tomorrow at 4 p.m., in Christ Church. Bishop Lawrence, when dean of the Theological School here, was very intimately associated with a large number of Harvard men and he has always been very popular with them. This year, in fact, he is to deliver the Baccalaureate for the class of '95. Those who have not heard him should take advantage of this opportunity as his Episcopal duties do not often permit him to preach in Cambridge now. Seats are reserved for all members of the University...
...public do not want the course shortened. - (a) England has found it unsatisfactory. - (1) At Oxford the greater number graduate in four years; Minority Report p. 7. - (b) It has not been popular in America. - (1), Johns Hopkins has not made a success of it: S. M. Macvane, Harv. Mo., XII, 3, (Mar., 1891). - (2) Almost all our new colleges have adopted the four years plan: Ibid...
...increase of prices lessens demand. - (b) Profits are enlarged by cheapening cost of production not by raising prices. - (c) Regime of combination is less harmful than one of free competition: Forum, 8:67 - (d) Trusts differ from corporate and individualistic forms of industry only in size and complexity. - (e) Popular prejudice is illogical. - (1) Classes most injured by competition are loudest in denouncing trusts...
Best general references: Popular Scientific Monthly, xxx, 296, 520 (Jan., Feb., 1887); No. Am. Rev., vol. 137, 218 (Sept., 1883); A. D. White in Forum, x, 357 (Nov., 1890); C. W. Eliot in Forum, xii, 153 (Oct., 1891); A. P. Wilder, Municipal Reform...