Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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The contributions toward the $35,000 necessary to carry out the proposed scheme of making a park of the Lowell estate on Brattle street, have come in rather slowly and the sum is now slightly over $21,000. The Cambridge Park Commission has long been considering the proposal of paying...
General Albert Ordway, the famous army officer, who died Sunday evening at the Hoffman House, New York, was a student of the Lawrence Scientific School when the Civil War broke out, and left College to enlist. He obtained a colonel's commission at the age of 21, and had a...
The situation of the building has been criticised by some as being dangerously near the baseball diamond. The fact that it is 450 feet from the home plate is enough to allay such fears. Subsequently it will be surrounded by paths and trees and will look very attractive. In fact...
Beside his literary activities Doctor Winsor has been engaged since 1868 in the library work to which his contributions are numerous and valuable. In 1868 he was made superintendent of the Boston Public Library, and he held the position until 1877 when he was appointed librarian of Harvard College. Since...
Best general references: McKinley's letter of acceptance; Indianapolis platform; Taussig's Tariff History (Tariff Commission of 1883); Tariff Reform (1896-7).