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...practically no taint of corruption in connection with spending them. American officials on small salaries have gone down to that tropical isthmus, have made it so healthy as to be almost a health resort, and have expended huge sums of money with vigilant economy as well as with singular efficiency in the actual work on the canal, and have done it so that there is not even a suspicion of a dollar having been taken by any of them. Very, very few private business concerns, no matter how well administered, can show such a high standard of probity and efficiency...
...seem wise, therefore, in order to enlist the services of Messrs. X and Y, to revive the old provision, whereby some of the members of the Council are elected by the Council itself. If everybody is to be represented, let us have among the representatives a few nobodies-the singular of which everybody is the plural. A. S. OLMSTRO...
...communication printed today in another column calls to our attention a singular situation in which Freshmen find themselves who have obtained a high grade in English A at the mid-year examinations. That is, they are relieved from the prescribed work in the second half-year, but if they wish to complete the course the usual fee for an additional half-course is charged. This certainly seems like "putting a premium on mediocrity." As a result of the last examinations 99 men were relieved from prescription, and of that number 60 paid the additional $10.00 and stayed in the course...
...avocation, but I know of a man who has four vocations, and made a success of each of them. Our guest of the evening has been a lawyer, a reformer in public life, an educator, and a college president; and he has done all of these with singular success, and in a way to excite the admiration of all who know him. I think he might speak with authority upon each of the four vocations I have mentioned, but he has chosen "Education" for his subject this evening. I wish to present to you President Garfield of Williams College...
...does Harvard alone attest his greatness. His mental precision and unusual capacity for lucid and apt discrimination have enabled him to treat public questions with singular authority and with an unerring instinct for the aspirations and needs of society. He has touched no subject without illuminating it; he has stood firmly for collegiate and civic righteousness; and so sane have been his counsels, so masterly his power of statement, that he not only commands today the attention of America, but he is honored by scholars and thinkers throughout the world. He has set an example to all by the simplicity...