Word: harrison
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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PHILADELPHIA, June 4, 1895. - Charles C. Harrison today made a donation of $500,000 to the University of Pennsylvania in honor of his father, the late George Leib Harrison, L.L.D. This gift was presented at the monthly meeting of the trustees of the university. Mr. Harrison, who has for the past year been acting provost since the retirement of Dr. Wm. Pepper, was elected provost...
...Harrison J. Holt, substitute pitcher Denver, Col., 19 years old weighs 152 pounds, played on Denver University nine for one year as third-baseman and substitute pitcher...
Banjos - M. Lincoln '96, J. Harrison '96, A. S. Knudsen '96, M. E. Stone, Jr., '97, F. F. Lamson...
Lindsay Dennis, Washington, D. C.; C. C. Hyde, Chicago; F. Burton Harrison, Julian Chamberlain and Roger S. Baldwin, of New York; and C. C. Clarke, Manhattan, Kansas...
...favored a long term with ineligibility for re-election, and only adopted four years with re-eligibility as an incident of the Electoral College; today they would probably favor the affirmative. The evils of the present arrangement are: use of office-holders by the president for political purposes as Harrison used them at Minneapolis; failure to veto bad bills for fear of offending a section of the party, as shown by pension legislation; impossibility of dignified or effective foreign policy with such frequent changes of officers; damage to business from uncertainty about legislation especially on the tariff caused by changes...