Word: commonwealth
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Harvard Union Debate. Sever 11, 7.30 p.m. Subject: Resolved, That the best interests of the Commonwealth demand the election of John F. Andrew as Governor of Massachusetts...
Among the later volumes in the American Commonwealth series, is a work by one of our most energetic and capable instructors, Dr. Royce, which has never received due notice in our columns. We refer to his book entitled "California," a careful account of the author's mother state, which gives in short space a very clear and adequate idea of the history of California during the most interesting period of its growth, the years from 1846 to 1856. Dr. Royce first gives an outline of the earlier history of the state, and then tells of the American as its conqueror...
Professor L. W. Spring, author of "Kansas" in the American Commonwealth Series, will give up the chair of English Literature in the State University of Kansas to take that in Williams College. He was graduated at Williams in 1863. - Princetonian...
...lecturer did not allow the attention of his audience to flag once. Dr. Royce is admirably fitted for the task which he has undertaken. He has spent much time in California as an instructor in the state university, and his recently published history of California in the Commonwealth series, evidence the writer's thorough mastery of the political, economic, and social status of this comparatively recently settled country. The remaining lectures of this course are to be given on successive Monday evenings. The topic of the lecture next week is, "The First Golden Days, and the Early Mining Life...
...exclusive of the gifts constituting part of the fixed endowment of the University, yielding a revenue which amounts to $282,600, all of which, except $2,600, has been also given since the war. Virginia has always been liberal to its University-"the glory of the Commonwealth" -allowing it at first $15,000 a year, and laterly $40,000. Probably nothing could better illustrate the reverence felt for it by the people of the State than the fact that when the Readjusters came into control and secured a majority on the Board of Visitors, not only was no change make...