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...Mauny-Talvande has little sympathy with the present system of education in France, inasmuch as it removes religion entirely from the schools. As a result of the withdrawal of religious instruction from the schools, he says, crime has increased in the ratio...
...desire, through your columns, emphatically to deny, on behalf of the Harvard Republican Club, any connection whatever with the result of a meeting held by the executive committee of the College Republican League of New England. The result of that meeting, as given by the daily papers, purported to show that the concensus of opinion of the college Republican Clubs of New England was in favor of Levi P. Morton for the next republican candidate for the presidency...
...small reserve land force. Notwithstanding such odds against a wooden fleet, Farragut attacked at once. The barrier was broken by a small vessel which slipped around the end in shallow water, and burst through from above by the aid of the current. The fleet kept on and the result was the famous battle which ended in the destruction of Fort Jackson and the rebel fleet, with but slight damage to the Union forces. The heroism of Farragut and his men is a household story...
...command and here, as always, he was timid, irresolute. In the west was Vicksburg; in eastern Tennessee was Chattanooga. A great general with Halleck's advantages would have taken both; any prompt courageous man would have taken one; but Halleck straddled between the two and lost both. As a result the war was prolonged a year...
...first public performance of Moliere's comedy by the Cercle Francais which was given in Brattle Hall last night was a success in every way. As a result of Professor de Sumichrast's careful direction there was not a hitch in the whole presentation, and even the final ceremony, which has dragged somewhat at the rehearsals, was interesting and amusing...