Word: dead
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...second speaker for the affirmative was Mr. F. B. Williams, L. S. He said that the old issue of the Republican party was dead. The present issue is tariff reform. The Mills bill is not free trade, for it retains an average duty of over 40 per cent. The present duty on lumber ought to be abolished, for it only protects Canadian workmen who are cutting off our forests in Maine...
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Miss Amelie Rives, the author of "The Quick or the Dead" and other works that recently have attracted attention in the literary world, was married at Charlottesville, Va., recently. The groom is Mr. John Armstrong Chanler of New York, a wealthy grandson of John Jacob Astor...
...increased rapidly were it not for a cause which is apparently slighted. The same narrow, pettifoging spirit still exists that was prevalent in every college a decade ago. The liberal principle of optional studies which has made such headway in all the leading colleges is to all practical purposes dead at Columbia. This conservative policy brings the college curriculum down to the same levelas the hum-drum routine of high school. It must be admitted on all sides that the undergraduate department of Columbia is far behind the age. The other schools are managed so as to keep abreast...