Word: britishers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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HARVARD UNION. - A question for the debate to take place on March, 18, 1886, 'will be selected at the meeting tonight from the the three questions here submitted: 1. Resolved, that Home Rule in Ireland is indispensable to the future welfare of the British Empire; 2. Resolved, that Preservation of Constitutional Government in this country demands the Repeal of the Hoar Presidential Succession Bill; 3. Resolved, that the introduction of the System of Co-education would advance the best interests of Harvard College...
...unrepealed law of New Jersey passed while the state was a British colony, reads as follows: "That all women of whatever age, rank, profession or degree, whether virgins, maids or widows who shall, after this act, impose upon, seduce and betray into matrimony any of his Majesty's subjects by virtue of scents, cosmetics, washes paints, artificial teeth, false hair or high heeled shoes, shall incur the penalty of the law now in force against witchcraft and like misdemeanors." - Princetonian...
...House of Commons." This question is certainly very properly asked. For why should students in an American university copy after an English institution? And why should they not copy after an American institution? Our lower house is, the Post's correspondent says, "in no wise inferior to the British House of Commons, in dignity, ability, or influence," and to copy after it, besides fostering an interest in home institutions, would also familiarize our future statesmen with the forms of procedure practised in the American Congress...
...chapel. But as I have never been able to substantiate this, I fear that it is a lie. To return to archetypes, Cicero and Virgil were not grinds, but Epictetus was a grind. The lamp in which Epictetus burned his midnight oil is even now on exhibition in the British Museum along side of the Elgin Marbles. It is as large as a barrel. But to be a grind is it necessary to be a genius? I will not answer this. Victor Hugo says somewhere that it is a tres grande thing to be a bold...
...Sale. - A 54-inch British Challenge Bicycle, full nickel, ball bearings, in good condition. L.S. Thayer, 28 Stoughton...