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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Spring has come. This is known to be true, because the inevitable small brother of your chum's sister's pretty friend has already begun to spring that inane and venerable question of "Why is it dangerous to walk out of doors now?" which he immediately explains as "Because the cow-slips about, and the little buds are shooting every-where." It is spring, but, in spite of the warm weather, it is also the fit time for overcoats, as the tailor says. April is a deceptive maid, and lures many an unsuspecting youth to an early grave...
...Globe" were sold yesterday in Cambridge. But really, this article opens up quite a field for enterprise. It could easily be "worked" in the cases of all classes of society. A series of illustrations of the rooms of prominent Bostonians, together with accurate histories of the persons in question, and spicy accounts of their personal habits, would be quite in line with this sort of journalism, and would, doubtless, prove entertaining reading. Yet it might be that the subjects of this sort of descriptive writing would object. It is not everybody that cares to invite the world into his chamber...
Political Economy 6. Members of this course will hand to the instructor a brief written answer to the question: "Why do importations of silk goods continue, notwithstanding the duty...
...question for debate was "Resolved, that President Cleveland, in withholding the documents demanded be the Senate, has grossly transcended his authority." The principal disputants were: affirmative, G. P. Furber, '87, L. B. Stedman '87; negative, H. B. Hutchins, '86, F. B's. Williams, '88. The secretary being one of the principal disputants, J. H. Bronson, Sp., was elected secretary...
...question chosen for the next meeting is: "Resolved, That the preservation of constitutional government requires the immediate repeal of the Hoar Presidential Succession Bill...