Word: wishes
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...field and swing the scythe or take care of horses and cattle. One is prepared by past experience to act as fireman on a locomotive, or conductor on a horse car. Another has been a conductor on a Pullman car and would like to be again, and a third wishes to be a clerk on a steamboat. At least a dozen are ready to be hotel clerks, or even waiters if no better opening offers. Among the many is one skilled in wood carving and quick in using the tools of the box maker. There are a number who wish...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:-Something ought to be said about the number and condition of the boats belonging to the boat club. There have been notices in the CRIMSON about the advantages of private boating, and it is the wish of the leading boating men in college that the boat-house and the boats be used more by private persons, and that men not on any of the crews should take some interest in rowing. Any member of the University can have the use of the boats belonging to the club by paying five dollars a season. But there are very...
...economic questions involved in the issue of inconvertible notes. In the final decision the court refused to ask itself whether paper currency was economically wise or not, hence the increased majority in favor of the power of Congress to issue paper. The burden of proof lies on those who wish to prove that the legal-tender laws were unconstitutional. It would be idle to try to discover the intentions of those who framed the Constitution. Law cannot inquire into such obscure questions. The words must be interpreted as they are written. The views of the "fathers" were divergent...
...wish to call attention to the lecture on "Petra and the Sinaitic Peninsula" which is to be given under the auspices of the Harvard Classical Club on Wednesday evening. The subject is one which ought to attract many interested in biblical history. The Classical Club is to be congratulated on its enterprise in securing the able services of the two gentlemen who are to lecture on this hitherto slightly known topic...
...office of Secretary of the College, and substituted therefor that of Secretary of the University. The increased powers connected with the new office and the wisdom of the change have been made apparent in the management of petitions for absence and in other ways, but what we particularly wish to notice, is the prospect for helping students in their efforts to obtain a livelihood during the summer months, and further in finding permanent situations for men who are about to leave the University. The college authorities have always done what they could in aiding graduates to get positions as teachers...