Word: britishers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Prof. Asa Gray will attend the coming meeting of the British Association at Manchester, England...
...interesting debate took place at the Union last evening on the subject of the Irish Coercion Bill, now pending before the British Parliament...
...Frank Michael, the successful playwright of the Hasty Pudding Club, has been presented by the society with a set of the "British Dramatists," obtained from the Duke of Marlborough's library...
...Robert Treat Paine followed for the affirmative. It is charged against Cleveland, said he, that he is inconsistent in the matter of the pension vetoes; but so is Mr. Gladstone, who is about to confer a great blessing on the British Empire by his inconsistency! Mr. Paine then discussed the wisdom of Mr. Cleveland's vetoes of private pension bills. He declared that these bills are a most striking example of injudicious charity. It is a most extravagant waste of the nation's money, which should be reserved for more appropriate purposes...
These words have had the desired effect, and a British School now stands on the slope of Lycabettus on land adjoining that of the American School. But the words of Bishop Lightfoot, with but slight change, may now appeal powerfully to our own national pride and honor. Above all things, we must not, at this late day, allow ourselves to play the part of the sleeping hare in this friendly race...