Word: commonwealths
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...active part in the society, some of the most prominent clergymen, lawyers, professors, journalists, and other professional men in the country. The annual dinners attract large numbers of members, of whom there are more than one hundred and fifty residing in Boston, and more than five hundred in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts...
...plumes and shining lances. President Eliot attended the inaugural ceremonies on Thursday in response to a personal invitation from Gen. Butler, and the president of Harvard can do no more than reciprocate the courtesy by inviting the governor over on commencement day. You know that the connection between the Commonwealth and the university has been dissolved, and the governor can now-a-days only go over on commencement as an act of courtesy. It is a mere matter of tradition now." Another politician said: "President Eliot respects the office which Gen. Butler holds, and it would have been unseemly...
...Humphreys, writing in the Commonwealth, says: "The publicity and excitement of engaging in matches all over the country is certainly not compatible with a faithful, honest performance of those duties of study and self-improvement to which their university course ought to be devoted; nor with the promotion or preservation of that moral manliness and self-respect which alone form and develop the true gentleman. The wealthier young men of each college will also be too generous - when they take time to think - not to see the justice of Dr. Crosby's remarks as to the hard and painful dilemma...
Many remarks have been made lately concerning the apparent change of tone in the Boston papers toward Harvard students. Last year they were wont to treat every little, thoughtless act with the utmost severity, as if it were premeditated, and were intended to shake the peace of the Commonwealth to its very foundation. Last year the freak of the freshmen at Oscar Wilde's lecture would have made the subject of editorials of the bitterest kind, denouncing not only the sixty "bold, bad men," but also the whole college. They now pass lightly over what last year would have been...
...Oberlin, good Oberlin, in the Commonwealth of Ohio, the druggists pledge themselves not to put up liquor, even in a prescription. A druggist who hadn't signed the pledge, and who put liquor in his medicine, was made the subject of an indignation mass meeting...