Word: commonwealths
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Commonwealth series of histories, that of California will be written by Dr. Royce and Kentucky by Prof. Shaler...
...Alfred E. Haserick, of Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, has recently passed the Entrance Examinations at Christ Church College, Oxford, and been admitted as a Commoner, He was prepared by Dr. E. R. Humphreys of Chester Park, Boston...
...Alfred E. Haserick, of Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, has recently passed the Entrance Examinations at Christ Church College, Oxford, and been admitted as a Commoner, He was prepared by Dr. E. R. Humphreys of Chester Park, Boston...
...series of historical works edited by Mr. Horace E. Scudder, the well-known Cambridge writer, entitled the "Commonwealth Series," is of particular value to students. The latest volume, "Maryland," has just appeared from the pen of William H. Brown, associate of John Hopkins. It deals only with the history of Maryland before the Revolution, when it was, as Mr. Brown says, a Palatinate. Wrtten in an easy style, it quickly commends itself to the reader. The authorities for the statements contained in it are the original manuscript records and archives of the state. This volume fills a want long felt...
...have been interested in looking over a list of questions discussed at Harvard in ante-revolutionary times by candidates for the degree of Master of Arts. As early as 1743, Samuel Adams chose the question, "Is it lawful to resist the supreme magistrate, if the commonwealth cannot otherwise be preserved?" He argued that it was lawful, and thirty years later he stood first in advocating such measures. In 1765 Elbridge Gerry, who became one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, answered the following question in the affirmative: "Can the new prohibitory duties, which make it useless...