Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There are usually campaign committees and a complete machine, including the bosses which the democratic won't-be-bulldozed spirit naturally breeds. Any one who has a penchant for working in practical politics can get a very fair sample of it here, and in that respect the system may be valuable. Its direct influence upon students and the institution I believe to be bad; yet just at present it is unavoidable, springing from the very nature of things...
...lecture room was well filled by the audience who came to hear Mr. Ed. Channing lecture on the "Fitz-John Porter Case," last evening. The lecturer began by saying that Pope's campaign was a failure, chiefly owing to his own incompetence. It was charged, however, that Fitz-John Porter was to blame, and he was tried by a court-martial, and sentenced to be dismissed. This decision was brought up and considered by a court of inquiry in 1878-79, who recommended that the action of the court martial be reversed. Mr. Channing then explained the maps which...
...Senate on Saturday debated the Beck resolution for an investigatian of the political assessment scandal during the late campaign. Messrs. Beck, Voorhees, Hale, Jones and others participated in a lively discussion, and recrimination was the order...
President White, Professors Tyler, Burbank, Tuttle and Fiske were active in organizing here during the last campaign a branch of the Civil Service Reform Association. They succeeded in giving the old-timers something of a scare, and doubtless contributed to the overwhelming Republican defeat in this country. President White is very much in earnest on the subject of civil service reform...
Somebody charges General Butler with being the author of "Hudibras." The mud-slinging of the campaign has begun. - [Exchange...