Word: washingtonization
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...which tend to show that the accidents were caused by a series of mistakes and were not intentional as has previously been thought. A member of the freshmen class telegraphed to his father in New York to procure for him half a dozen bombs for the purpose of celebrating Washington's birthday. A messenger was sent to procure the bombs, and through a mistake was sent to 20 Park Place instead of 9, as had been intended. The intention was to get Chinese salute bombs which explode with a loud noise, but are not particularly dangerous. The messenger failed...
...Forum for February has an article by Andrew D. White, on the expediency of founding a university at Washington...
...Washington is a centre in which great educational resources are brought together, and from which are radiated vast influences upon American life; and the fact that it is our capital has made it the permanent or temporary residence of very many leading men, upon whom a university might draw for its lecture rooms and council chambers. Moreover, Washington offers advantages for scientific research, which can be obtained in no other city in this country. The Smithsonian Institute, the National Museum, the great government Surveys, sundry Government commissions and bureaus, whose work is largely scientific, and many retired officers...
...obvious. It would strengthen then the universities and colleges now existing, by sending back strong men into their Faculties. It would be a perpetual incentive to the best men in the country to exert themselves to their utmost, in view of a possible appointment to a professorship at Washington. But great as the benefits would be to the cause of learning, the greatest benefit of all would be felt by the country at large, for the atmosphere of a great university could not fail to have a beneficial effect on the law-givers of the nation...
...Wesleyan faculty have discovered nine members of the freshman class who took part in the bomb-throwing celebration of Washington's birthday...