Word: governor
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Next Friday evening the alumni of Princeton will give a banquet at the Princeton Inn to this fall's champion football eleven. Mr. John W. Alexander '60 will preside and Governor Griggs of New Jersey will be the guest of honor. Harvard will be represented by ex-Captain J. H. Sears '89, and Yale by Mr. George Adee...
...John Harvard Scholarships, without stipend, the Faculty has for the first time recognized that all undergraduates, without regard to the accident of personal fortune, are entitled to equal academic distinction. In honor of this fact Professor Wendell invited the President and Fellows, the Board of Overseers, the Acting Governor of the Commonwealth, and a few other gentlemen of official as well as personal distinction, to meet, at his home last evening, the twenty-three undergraduates who this year have received scholarships of the highest grade...
Among the gentlemen who were able to accept the invitation to meet these students were Acting-Governor Wal cott, President Eliot, and Dr. Cabot, Mr. Higginson, Mr. Hooper, Mr. Lowell and Dr. Walcott, of the Corporation; Mr. Lincoln, Bishop Lawrence, Mayor Bancroft, Mr. C. F. Adams, Dr. Cheever, Dr. Folsom, Judge Grant, Mr. Hemenway, Mr. Lyman, Mr. Peabody, Dr. Shattuck, Mr. Weld, and Mr. Williams, of the Board of Overseers; the Deans of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, of the Graduate School, and of Harvard College; the Rev. S. W. Brooke, the Rev. Percy Browne, the Rev. James...
...George Yardly succeeded Dale as deputy governor, but he held office only a year, being succeeded by Argall in 1617. John Rolfe was appointed secretary. Argall, arrived in Virginia, found well under way the development of a new industry-tobacco-growing. As the great purchasing power of tobacco came to be known, people began to devote themselves more and more to its production, to the neglect of other industries. This brought to the colony people of business qualities and the character and fortunes of all began steadily to improve...
...prospective arrest, acted worse than ever, All the ills were charged to Sir Thomas Smith, the treasurer of the company, and in April, 1619, Sir Edwin Sandys was chosen in his stead. Affairs under him were administered with a statesmanship and fairness hitherto unknown. Yardley was made governor of Virginia...