Word: gov
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Philadelphian society held its annual meeting. Monday, June 17, was Class Day, and in the evening the Junior orations were delivered in the First Church. On Tuesday the annual meeting of the literary societies took place. The alumni dinner was held in the afternoon of the same day. Gov. Green presided. The first speaker introduced was Dr. McCosh, who, against the advice of his physician, had come out with the express purpose of again greeting his old pupils. When the doctor was called upon the three hundred alumni rose to their feet and cheered vigorously. After the dinner the mura...
...Gov. Ames, on Wednesday, nominated President E. H. Capen of Tufts College to fill the vacancy on the State board of education...
...amused themselves in divers innocent ways. After an almost interminable delay the division fell into line behind the second division at 9.30 p. m. After the march was really begun there were no halts of any importance. The route of the procession lay through Dartmouth street to Boylston, where Gov. Ames, at the Brunswick, reviewed the column; through Berkely, Columbus avenue, Springfield and Washington streets to Adams Square, where the chief marshal reviewed and dismissed the parade. The route was hardly a satisfactory one, but it did very well, and the rounds of applause for Harvard, on Columbus avenue...
...Gov. Robinson was the next speaker. In opening, he welcomed the Republican Club of Harvard and stated that as this is a govenment of the majority, those who had spoken at the recent meeting ought to seek other platforms and endeavor to correct the false impression which they had carried abroad. In Harvard he had learned that protection was the one sound basis of government in this Common-wealth. Harvard had always been for the masses and when the old college ceases to be on the side of the common people, then she ceases to support those principles for which...
...Independent meeting. The college is not the property of any one, but is devoted to the truth alone. Rich, of the Law school, spoke at length, stating the proportion of protectionists in college compared well with the free traders. The meeting ended with a stirring speech by Gov. Long...