Word: congress
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Sanders Theatre was well filled last evening by an audience of the best people of Cambridge and many students from the college. Mr. Longfellow, after giving a short account of the work Senator Dawes is now trying to accomplish in Congress, introduced Walter Baptiste, an Indian of the Sac and Fox tribe, who spoke on "What will you do with the Indian." He gave a vivid picture of life in Dacotah and spoke of the influence for good which graduates of such schools as the Hampton Institute are exerting on their own people. He appealed for more education...
...Resolved, That Congress should establish a system of compulsory arbitration in labor disputes...
...contributor to a recent number of the Yale News advocates that a congress be established at that college. Such a congress would, in general, afford very much the same opportunities for debate and discussion that Harvard men now enjoy in the Union. This proposal which is made at Yale is but one of the many with which our college papers all over the country are filled. To-day there seems to be a sort of fever in our American colleges for starting congresses, houses of commons, and the like. The formation of such debating societies, which shall keep the students...
...Cleveland, Bayard, Sherman, Carlisle and a host of other celebrities are "self-made men." Suppose that there are in the United States 10,000,000 men above the average age of a graduate, and that 100,000 of them are college alumni. Now applying the common test to Congress, it is necessary to prove not that this and that prominent member, that a great many members or even an overwhelming majority - but that more than ninety-nine per cent. are not college graduates. And for valid statistics against a graduate's comparative chances for Presidency, it would be necessary...
...graduates of the Yale Law School number about 950, and among these we find 54 judges, 24 members of Congress, 85 State legislators, of whom 10 were also Speakers of the House, 5 governors, and 8 ministers to foreign courts. The present membership of the school is 68, including those studying for the degrees of M. L. and D. C. L., and the prospects for the school are very promising...