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...class of '86 contains an "offensive partisan" in the person of Mr. W. G. Webster, late of the Treasury department, Washington, D. C. Mr. Webster entered the service under competitive Civil Service Examination, but spent his vacation last fall in making campaign speeches. The New York Times noticed his first efforts as follows: Princeton, N. J., Sept. 26, 1884. Tonight, Mercer Hall was filled with college students to hear the first political speech of the campaign in the college Mr. W. G. Webster of Illinois, recently of Michigan University, spoke stirringly and in an eloquent manner. The meeting was enthusiastic...
Cornell is to enjoy a course of sermons from Lyman Abbott, Edward Everett Hale, H. R. Haweis, the distinguished English divine, C. A. Sims, Chancellor, Syracuse University, Bishop Garrett, Texas, and Washington Gladden...
Thus the names of many illustrious men are connected with the history of the house, and give a peculiar interest to it. But the most famous of all the Americans who visited the house was the Commander-in-chief of the American Rebels in Cambridge, George Washington. During his stay in Cambridge in 1775, at the time when he took command of the Continental army, he slept in Wadsworth House several times before making the Wassail House his permanent headquarters...
This was not the only time that Washington visited Wadsworth House. Again, in 1789, the then President Washington visited Cambridge, and was given a reception in Wadsworth House. This time, as we might naturally suppose, a brilliant assembly of prominent men of both literary and political talents, assembled in the old building, and we may well imagine what a glorious ovation there was to the idolized President of the United States...
Entrance examinations for Princeton will be held this year in Denver, Salt Lake City and Seattle, Washington Territory, in addition to the regular places...