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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ships exclusively.- (1) Because only in so doing can we gain the whole profit of our carrying trade: "Shall Americans build ships?" No. Am. Review, May, 1881, pp. 473-4; "American Shipping Interests," (pamphlet), pp. 6, 44, 48-51.- (2) Because, by so doing, we employ American labor, and use American materials: "American Shipping Interests," (pam.), p. 20.- (3) Because, in the long run, we can build as cheaply at home as we can buy or build abroad: John Roach, speech before Boston Board of Trade (pam); No. Am. Review, May, 1881, pp. 471, 473, 469; Letter to Hon. Samuel...
...Cambridge aldermen have granted the West End railway the right to use the cable system in this city...
...with two pairs of sliding seats so that stroke and bow may row either on the port or starboard side. The coxswain's seat is finely upholstered. The boat was made by the well-known Cambridge boat-builders, Swaddle and Co., and is a duplicate of the one in use at present by the Cambridge crew...
Although we may appear to be forcing the season in making a suggestion to the Lawn Tennis Association before the snow on the ground is melted, never-theless it will be but a few weeks before the courts on Holmes and Jarvis will be ready for use. That great inconvenience to players, the absence of backnets, was removed last year, but there is yet one little fault which everyone would be glad to see remedied. It is well known what a bore it is to pay in cash the man who has charge of the courts, for if one does...
...reform is needed most of all in the Political Economy Library in University Hall. Men are more careless in the use of books here than in the College Library, and as there is no librarian here, the trouble of replacing books falls in the hands of one of the professors. A little more care and consideration for others in the use of books at both places, would make the trouble less and the convenience greater for all who use the books...