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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...district system has been in use, and strenuous efforts have been made by Congress and by different States to introduce it still further.- Lalor's Encyclopaedia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: English 6. | 10/26/1888 | See Source »

Senator Hoar of Massachusetts is decorated with more college titles than any other member of either house of Congress...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 10/23/1888 | See Source »

...foreign policy of the present administration has been weak and unpatriotic. a.- The President failed to act under retaliatory law passed by congress in 1887.- Speech of Benjamin F. Butler, Aug. 31, 1888. b.- The administration has been generally inefficient.- James G. Blaine (in American Magazine Sept...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: English 6. | 10/12/1888 | See Source »

...less than seven Harvard graduates are running for Congress in Massachusetts this year, with one or two districts yet to hear from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 10/10/1888 | See Source »

...faculty has met again without deciding on the overseers' vote on the restriction of athletics. The faculty, for slowness of action, seems to rival the United States Congress.- Tribune...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor | 5/14/1888 | See Source »

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