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...Wolffe spoke first. He treated his subject from the economical standpoint. In America every man's opinion has its weight and the majority wins the day. The majority advocate the opening of the fair on Sunday. Take the churches in Chicago, they will not hold one third the people at the fair. Where then will they go if it is closed. Part will go to the saloons and others to places equally harmful. Open, is the cry of labor organizations, and they are a large part of the people...
Granting that the system has succeeded better than was expected, it is still far from perfect and we fail to see how it can be extended to the whole hall. From the standpoint of those who after all have to eat there and bear the practical illustration of the experiment, the general table system is not desirable. But from the steward's standpoint - which is that the facilities are now overtaxed and cannot be increased - it is evident that something must be done...
...game, and especially the first half was an extremely satisfactory one from a Harvard standpoint...
...immediately at the close of Mr. Guilds speech, being too near the platform. Mr. Walker spoke in the interests of the poorer classes in Harvard College, and as his speech progressed brought forward a long array of figures to prove how necessary the protective tariff is from the manufacturers standpoint...
Both from the standpoint of workmanship and plot, "Bess," by R. T. French, takes first place among the stories in the last Advocate. The style is careful, great attention being paid to little points and delicate touches, and yet the whole story is complete and well-rounded...