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...HERALD: During the last two weeks, certain students have been considering the formation of a society, the aim of which will be the creation of a stronger college sentiment against intemperance in drinking. The plan of organization is not yet fully determined, but it is expected that a total abstinence basis will be found to be necessary. If it were to be a total abstinence society of the traditional ironclad, intolerant stamp, we should expect and deserve a tornado of criticism and opposition; but it is to be nothing of the kind. In justice, therefore, to those who wish...
...will certainly be appreciated by every Harvard student; if there is anything we do not believe in, it is bigotry. There are some practices that all conscientious men believe to be wrong, but in regard to drinking, perfectly upright men may differ. The friends of the society believe that total abstinence is on the whole the best practice; but they respect the views of those who conscientiously differ, and wish it to be distinctly understood that they have no sympathy whatever with those who ground their belief in total abstinence upon anything but common-sense...
...different courses there is 1000. The number is divided as follows: Graduates, 23; seniors, 20; juniors, 30; sophomors, 44; freshmen, 82. In the preparatory classes are 538; theological department, 34; commercial department, 173; musical department, 170; art department, 93. Deducting those named more than once, it leaves a total...
...Civil Engineer, on 8; of Bachelor of Philosophy, in the scientific course, on 22; in the political science course, on 10; of Doctor of Philosophy, on 3; of Bachelor of Laws, on 102: of Bachelor of Laws, cum laude, on 21; of Doctor of Medicine, on 120; total, 351. It is claimed that Columbia College has a larger number of students in attendance than any educational institution on this side of the Atlantic...
...daughter of her brother, Rev. John B. Clemson, of Claymont, Delaware. George Lafayette Washington died six or seven years ago, leaving the medal to his widow, Mrs. Ann Bull Washington, of whom it was obtained by fifty citizens of Boston, who subscribed a sum of money in the total sufficiently large to induce the widow to part with it. While the civil war was in progress George Lafayette Washington lived eleven miles from Harper's Ferry, on the main road to Winchester, where the belligerents were continually ousting one another's forces. Lest any mishap should befall the medal...