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...Josiah Quincy, the Democratic candidate for representative in the second Massachusetts district, said that the Republicans might be allowed the pleasure of having the Harvard students march in their torchlight procession. As long as the boys' hearts were true there was little need for the Democrats to fear. Mr. Quincy's speech was in condemnation of unjust taxation. Mr. G. S. Howe, '89, as the representative of the undergraduates, made an exceptionally fine address. It was a difficult position for an undergraduate, but Mr. Howe's speech could well bear comparison with those those of the elder men. He received...
...Republican party favors temperance.- Speech of Mrs. J. Ellen Foster, Sept. 5, 1888, (pamphlet); New York Mail and Express, (in Public Opinion, March...
...President Cleveland's civil service pledges have not been fulfilled.- Letters of Grover Cleveland, dated August 18, 1884, Dec. 25, 1884, Sept. 11, 1885, and Dec. 8, 1885; inaugural address, March 4, 1885 (in the daily press); speech of Senator Hale, Jan. 11, 1888. (in the Congressional Record...
...that the entire absence of parliamentary rule passed completely unnoticed. The following were nominated as marshals for the torchlight procession: Clark, Cromwell, fiske, Kidder, Rowley, Thompson and Watriss. After the tellers, Messrs. Cabot and Robbins, had been appointed, some one suggested that the class had signified no intention of marching in any procession. The hint was eagerly caught up and it was voted by a large majority to march with the Republican procession on Oct. 24. The freshmen then with due modesty, apparently thinking it presumption to vote for three candidates, limited themselves to one each, and it was decided...
...resolution thanking Capt. J. H. Sears for his efforts in behalf of the class was passed unanimously. Another resolution was then offered that '92 march with the party which needed it the most. This proposal called for so much serious reflection that it was lost in the mazes of the freshman intellect before it could be put to vote. The only solution of the problem that could be suggested was an immediate adjournment and the meeting abruptly broke...