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...students as a whole do not take much interest in the government of their country and even those who vote often vote the ticket inherited, like many other things, from their fathers. It is just such debates as these which serve to create an interest in politics and to widen our knowledge of the questions of the day; and great credit should therefore be given the men who arrange them. The audience last night was an enthusiastic one and the proceedings passed off very smoothly...
Mayor Grant has assured President Low of Columbia of the favorable attitude of the city to the amendment of Senator Plunkett's bill, by which the Blooming-dale property will be kept free from streets and a strip ceded to the city to widen 120th street...
...meeting of the Free Wool Club to be held this evening in Sever 5, the executive committee of the club will bring before the meeting a proposition to make certain changes which will tend to widen the interests the interests and extend the membership of the organization. This proposed change is not intended to weaken in any way the past support of the dogma of free raw materials, the platform on which the club was founded when the excitement over the tariff question was at its height, but to include other reform doctrines which are attracting general attention and which...
...Harvard Reform Club, nonpartisan and standing pledged to support such conservative reform movements as from time to time it may espouse, the organization cannot fail greatly to widen its influence, and to become a power in the University. More, and men of even greater national significance will speak under the auspices of the club since not only the range of subjects which can be pertinently touched upon, will be wider but there will be nothing in such a name as the Harvard Reform Club which might make the most timid, suppose of ballot reformers, dread being compromised to free trade...
...acquainted with the sum of Greek and Latin literature before graduation. During the first two years, as is right, he is confined to a minute study of a limited number of works with due deference to grammar. But during the last two years, instead of having an opportunity to widen his personal knowledge of Greek plays or of Latin poetry, he is obliged to devote his energies to text criticism and details of syntax of a few specimens of literature. This system practically makes wide reading an impossibility. A student has but little time for outside work, and thus graduates...