Word: passing
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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ENGLISH 6, December 2, 1880, at 2 P. M., in Sever 5. Debate on the following question : "Resolved, That the civil service of the United States should be reformed by requiring every candidate for appointment to pass a satisfactory examination, and by making the tenure of office during good behavior." Disputants, affirmative, Messrs. DeWindt, MacVeagh, Hadley; negative, Messrs. Jackson, Dazey, Adams...
...world as we pass call me lucky...
...need of an auctioneer to sell property, I can recommend a Western friend of mine whom I chanced to meet this year. While travelling, this summer, I was obliged to pass a night in a Colorado mining settlement composed of men of all nationalities, and it was there that I met my man, as follows...
...being much less than the Association will now have to incur before their track is again practically useful. The enthusiasm in regard to track athletics at Harvard, although much greater last year than ever before, is still not so intense that we can afford to let an entire season pass by without giving any encouragement at all to our runners and walkers; and we can only hope that next year the growth of weeds and grass upon the track will not render it so nearly indistinguishable from the rest of the field that our fall meeting will again have...
PARK THEATRE. - 7.45 P. M., Matinee Saturday at 1.45. On Monday, the Union Square Company began playing Mr. Edgar Fawcett's "False Friend," The plot depends on the attempt of Lucien Gleyre (Mr. Thorne) to pass himself off as Cuthbert Fielding (Mr. Courtaine), who is supposed to be dead. The dramatic interest is very great, and well sustained, although the materials are by no means new. The acting is, throughout, excellent, as is to be expected from this company. "French Flats," a very amusing piece, adapted from "Les Locataires de M. Blondeau," is in preparation...