Word: washingtonization
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Today is the one hundred and fifty eighth anniversary of the birth of George Washington-Father of his Country. All through the land there will be a holiday today, instituted by the legislature of the United States. It is right and fitting that this should be so. And yet we students of Harvard University, who are being educated here right beside the very tree under which Washington first took command of the armies fighting for "Liberty or Death," are not allowed a holiday on the anniversary of his birth. Was it not within a few miles of this town that...
President and Mrs. Eliot are the guests in Washington of ex-Secretary McCulloch, who was secretary of the treasury in Pres. Johnson's administration and again in President Arthur's. He will return to Cambridge some time this week...
...jump will have entries from Harvard, Technology and the Union and Association gymnasiums. Wason, of Tech, is said to be able to jump 5 ft. 6 in. Tickets for the games are now on sales at Music Hall. The medals are on exhibition at the corner of Winter and Washington streets, Boston. The probabilities are that the games will be of great interest to college men and amateur athletics generally...
Exercises in commemoration of Washington's birthday will be held as usual at the Boston Latin School, Warren Ave., on Tuesday morning Feb. 21, at 10 o'clock...
...Centennial. There is besides an important and interesting collection of medals in memory of famous French and American battles and naval victories. A large number of medals in gold and silver commemorate the election, inauguration and episodes in the career of some of our presidents, among whom are Washington and Lincoln. A series of reproductions of medals in honor of the kings of France is interesting. They extend from the siege of Pharamond 430 A. D. down to Napoleon II, who died in 1832. Besides those we have mentioned there are a great many series of medals both curious...