Word: congress
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Young of Princeton College, Professor Peirce of Harvard, President Porter of Yale, J. E. Hilgard of the United States Coast Survey office, President Garland of Vanderbilt University at Nashville, Tenn., President Barnard of Columbia College, Professor Henry of Smithsonian Institute, and other scientific scholars have signed a memorial to Congress asking that the naval observatory at Washington be removed to a healthier and better situation than it has now, and that, so far as possible, it be made fireproof. - Transcript...
...greatest number of articles was Edward Everett, who wrote no less than one hundred and sixteen. This number becomes more astonishing when we reflect that during Mr. Everett's first editorship, he was just entering on his duties as professor, and during his second he was a member of Congress. Notwithstanding these other duties, Mr. Everett once took lessons in Spanish for three weeks, in order to review Dean Funes' History of Paraguay...
...PRESIDENT SEELYE has given all of his salary while a representative in Congress from Massachusetts to the town of Amherst, to be expended in laying sidewalks through the village...
...COMPARISON of the number of volumes in some of the largest libraries of the country shows the Harvard Library to be the third. The following are the figures: Library of Congress, 300,000; Boston Public Library, 299,869; Harvard, 227,650; Mercantile Library of New York, 160,613; Astor Library, 152,446; and Yale College Library...
...There have been 63 Members of Congress and 16 United States Senators among the graduates of Dartmouth, not including two Congressmen and one Senator elect. The upper House of the Canadian Parliament has also contained one Dartmouth man, and the lower House three...