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...colleges as well as Yale, but nowhere to such an extent. And this was the case a hundred years ago. In the catalogue for 1839-40 every state in the union, except Indiana and Arkansas, was represented and also Canada, West Inda, Greece, Ireland and Brazil. The halls of congress have continually been thronged with Yale graduates, and in 1865 while five presidents of New England colleges were Harvard men, eleven came from Yale. At that time she also furnished twenty two presidents to colleges out of New England...
...transacted if the attention of the house is called to the fact that a quorum is not present.- Lalors Cyclopaedia of Political Science, III, 88. (b) The fact of a quorum or of no quorum is settled by the record-Smith's Manual, 455; House Journal, 1st session, 44th congress, p. 1078. (c) The constitutional idea of a quorum implies not the visible presence, but the judgment and voted of the members-Thomas B. Reed in Congressional Record, vol X., part...
...precedents brought up by the speaker do not apply-J. G. Carlisle in House Journal, 1st session, 51st congress...
...claim of immemorial custom in congress is unfounded-Mr. Bayne in Cong. Record, February 11. 1890; Mr. Butter worth, February 2, ibid; Rules of forty-seventh and Fiftieth congresses, rule XVII...
...effort is being made to organize in Washington a university club on the plan of the University club of New York. There are over five hundred college men in the capitol city, of which number nearly two hundred are members of congress...