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...Copley portrait is by Professor Barrett Wendell '77. Besides the brief history of the portrait, sketches are given of the five incumbents of the Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory founded by Nicholas Boylston, John Quincy Adams, Rev. Joseph McKean. Edward Tynel Channing, Francis J. Child and Adams Sherman Hill. Of Professor Hill Mr. Wendell says that he has established the study of Rhetoric and English which he found one of secondary importance, as one of the first academic rank...
More important events followed. Grant, Sherman and Buell were soon advancing upon Fort Henry, which guarded the Tennessee river. Halleck, as usual, was afrald and undecided, but Grant with 17,000 men, aided by Commodore Foote with seven gun-boats, swooped down on Foote with seven gun-boats, swooped down on Fort Henry. The surprise was complete. Gillman, who commanded the fort, saw he could not hold out, and sending most of his garrison to reinforce Fort Donelson, he surrendered...
...Sherman Melville Woodward, S. M. Washington Univ. St. Louis 1893; I yr. Graduate School; Physics and Mathematics; in place of Oscar Quick (Physics) resigned...
...tariff policy of the Republican party favors a new protective tariff.- (a) Party platforms: N. Y., in N. Y. Tribune, Sept. 18, '95; N. J., Ibid, Sept. 26, '95; Mass., Ibid, Oct. 6, '95.- (b) Utterances of party leaders: McKinley, Foraker and Sherman in N. Y. Tribune, Sept. 11, '95; McKinley in N. Y. Eve. Post, Oct. 25, '95; T. C. Carter in N. A. R., vol. 158 p. 431, Reed in N. A. R., vol. 159 p. 402; Editorial in N. Y. Trib...
...Republican party has a more satisfactory financial policy.- (a) It is more strongly against free silver as shown by-(1) The vote on the repeal of the Sherman silver act: Forum, May, 1894; Public Opinion, Nov. 16, 1893.- (2) The Democratic silver convention: Public Opinion, Aug. 22, 1895.- (3) The withdrawal of Senator Jones from the Republican party: Public Opinion 17, p. 563.- (b) Democratic financial management is incompetent.- (1) They have failed to keep up the gold reserve in spite of their bond issues, Forum 19, p. 659-(2) On account of its leaning to free silver Congress...