Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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English VI. Oral Discussion. Opened by Messrs. Frost and Gardner. Grant's Plan for the Wilderness Campaign. Sever...
English VI. Oral discussion, opened by Messrs. Frost and Gardner. Grant's Plan for the Wilderness Campaign. Sever...
...simply apalling to consider the amount of learned thought which is displayed in the ever recurring and ever instructive "voted to adjourn." We are glad to see that, in the lull of the great athletic problem as to which college lost the most blood in the glorious foot-ball campaign of last season, the seniors of Williams feel called upon to declare themselves in favor of a more extensive study of Physiology. But is not this tinged with a little of the spirit of the assassin? Is there not a concealed purpose to be able to find out an opponent...
...carry him through, his friends were trying the Mexican plan and starting a revolution. The exact appropriateness of cheering for a college in the occasion of a state election is not apparent to anyone besides the youthful perpetrators of the deed. As there was not the excitement in this campaign which has been the excuse for similar outburst in the last two years, it was hoped that the usual freshman ebullition might be omitted. As all three candidates were Harvard graduates, perhaps there was a feeling that by cheering for alma mater, the different candidates could be honored...
...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...