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...school in the country in point of excellence in instruction and method. To Nathan Dane, an early resident of Massachusetts. is due the credit of aiding in the erection of the first building for the study of law at Harvard. In October, 1831, he advanced the sum of five thousand dollars toward the erection of a "Law College," and offered a loan of two thousand dollars more in order to enable the corporation to proceed immediately to the erection of a building. The Dane Law College was completed in October, 1832, and was then considered a model institution...
...colleges, "Poor little Bee, their is room enough in the world for you and me." Never give up the valuable virtues for muddled fuddled stultified fabulous pandomoniums. Try is the lever that moves the life and matter of the world. Mark the march of evolution the last six thousand years ever since the days of Adam and Eve playing behind an apple tree sowing leaves together to make an apron or the dens and caves in the earth for a habitation. The future of the past eclipsed by humanity to man the heaven of the mind. Shakespere divides greatness into...
Shotover won the two thousand guineas yesterday. Gerald, the American horse, was scratched...
...York divine recently delivered an address on the subject, "Why are Americans Dying Out?" He said that the death rate in America was alarming. In 1880 the average in New York was twenty-six in a thousand, and in 1881 thirty-one, and forty-eight cities in the United States exceeded that. Last year the deaths in New York exceeded the births by 12,494. He said there are six reasons for this deterioration: Americans eat and drink too much; they gamble in stocks and grain as well as at the gaming-table: they are a homeless people, nearly...
...Four thousand immigrants arrived in Montreal last week, en route for Manitoba...