Word: commonwealths
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Next, we give thanks and praises to Massachusetts, colony, province, commonwealth. Hers was the far-seeing and far reaching act we celebrate; hers was the generative deed, done in loneliness and poverty, but in faith. Today 50,000,000 of people in wealth and strength and liberty share its fruits...
...every line, having survived in perfect integrity the prodigious political, social and commercial changes of more than two centuries. And still, after more than two centuries, do Winthrops, Endicotts, Saltonstalls, Bulkleys, Danforths, Rogerses, Hoars and Wigglesworths represent at these tables the founders of the college and the Commonwealth. Here, too, by our sides sit Adamses, Quincys, Cushings, Paines, Wards, Warrens, Emersons, and Pickerings, recalling the qualities, and even the features of our heroes, of the Revolutionary period. So may our descendants shout in this very hall, when 50 years, hence, the President shall recall heroic names...
President Devens: Brethren, At our table the Commonwealth of Massachusetts stands rather as a host than as a guest; so that I shall follow the usual custom, even before announcing our chieftest guest, to give you - The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the legitimate representative of the little colony which founded Harvard College. I shall respectfully invite Gov. Robinson to respond...
...Governor of the Commonwealth and the President of the United States...
...subject of the Union debate last night was, Resolved, That the best interests of the Commonwealth demand the election of John F. Andrew as governor. The debate for the affirmative was opened by W. L. Currier, '87; for the negative by C. L. Griffin, '88. T. W. Thayer, '89, followed for the affirmative, and F. McAfee, Sp., for the negative...