Word: presentments
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...present navy is utterly inadequate. (a) to guard the coast; (b) to protect commerce; (c) to police the seas; (d) to uphold our dignity abroad:- Donaldson's Public Domain, p. 464, Congressional Record, vol. XV., pp. 1089-94; Nation, vol. XXXI...
...Chess and Whist club held a meeting in the old Hasty Pudding building last evening. As there were not enough men present to form a quorum, no business was transacted...
...very interesting meeting of men from other colleges who are at present in the different departments of the university was held in Sever 11, last evening. The purpose of the meeting was to hear the report of the committee appointed some time ago to investigate the moral and intellectual earnestness of the men in the university. From the answers which the committee has received to the ten questions sent by them to all men from other colleges it is clearly shown that the moral and intellectual spirit here is thoroughly healthy and earnest. Owing to lack of space a detailed...
Before adjourning, a club was organized by those present in accordance with the suggestion of the committee. The purpose of this club is to make it pleasant for all men coming to Harvard from other colleges...
...efforts of some instructors of the university to start a German library similar to that attached to the French department, have been well rewarded by Mr. Henry Villard, who has made a present of $500 for the purpose of starting the library. Professor Francke has immediate charge of the matter, and is at present busy preparing a list of books which will be ordered as soon as possible. As it will be some time before the books arrive and as a room has not yet been obtained, it is hardly probable that the library will be opened this year...