Word: attorney
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...President will leave Washington this afternoon for New York to witness the opening of the New York and Brooklyn bridge. He will be accompanied by Secretary Folger, the secretary of the navy and Mrs. Chandler, the postmaster-general and Mrs. Gresham, the attorney-general and Mrs. Brewster. The length of the President's stay in New York has not yet been determined...
Joaquin Miller claims that he knows a professor at Harvard who writes slashing editorials, and he "reckons" that other universities also afford writers of force and culture for the press. As to writing plays, he thinks that every attorney's clerk, certainly every Harvard or Cambridge graduate, has at least a brace of plays. But no one will produce them. Few will read them. Yet, so far from being dull or worthless, they are often great. But they are fashioned after the Greek, or after Shakespeare, and out of date...
...opened for the winter term with three hundred and fifty students. There is quite an excitement among the students over the introduction of chapel exercises in the university, this being something to which they are entirely unaccustomed. At their last meeting the board of trustees, after consulting the attorney-general, passed a resolution instructing the faculty to hold, daily, a general meeting of the students for the reading of he Scriptures (without comment) and prayers, at the discretion of the president...
Congressman Speer of Georgia is to receive the nomination for United States attorney for the northern district of Georgia...
...daughters of Ex-Secretary Blaine and Attorney-General Brewster were married in Washington yesterday, both events being of a most brilliant character...