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...proper subject for legislation (a) for the protection of the state and the citizens-Cong. Globe, Vol. 29, first session, 33d Congress, p. 1135; (b) it is not a sumptuary law-Blair, Temperance Movement, p. 337; (c) and does not infringe on personal liberty-Lees, Liquor Traffic, p. 91; (d) It is proper, also, for the constitution-U. S. Supreme Courts Reports, Curtis, 16, p. 519; Our Day, 1, pp. 11; Journal of Social Science...
Secretary Whitney has placed a bill before Congress appropriating $50,000 to aid in the preparation of charts of the sky. This work is at present being carried on by the observatories connected with the universities...
...short life of four years. A very large number of members was present, although, to be sure, New England was very poorly represented, probably owing to Christmas and New Year's festivals. A few days before the meeting the bill incorporating the American Historical Association passed both houses of Congress. The corporators are Justin Winsor, Hon. Andrew D. White, George Bancroft, William Poole, Herbert B. Adams, and Clarence W. Brewer...
Somebody has been looking over Princeton's list of graduates who have become prominent in public life, and finds that it includes two signers of the Declaration of Independence, twenty-seven delegates to the Continental Congress, one President (Madison), two Vice-Presidents and five nominated as candidates, seventeen Cabinet officers, one chief-justice, five associate justices, seventeen foreign ministers, fifty-one Senators and 115 Representatives. besides two speakers of the House...
...Congress has passed a bill incorporating the American Historical Society. Among the founders of the association are Mr. Justin Windsor of Harvard, ex-president A. D. White of Cornell, and the Hon. George Bancroft...