Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...news of importance of any kind shall be telegraphed at once to each of the papers in the association. The expense in these cases shall be borne by the paper receiving the dispatch...
...related that the last time Mr. Gladstone went to Nice to recuperate, a friend found him in the garden one day writing page after page of what seemed to be an important public dispatch. He apologized for the interruption. "Not at all," said the prime minister; "I am only writing in reply to an Eton boy who wrote to me on a point in Homer." He confessed that he did not know his questioner; but it was a pleasure for an old Etonian to spend his holiday in satisfying the desire for knowledge...
...task of canvassing the college has been no easy one, but has been carried on rapidly and successfully. For this work the college is once more indebted to the Harvard Union, which has always shown energy and dispatch in taking up such investigations. This fall, no doubt the Union will afford us a few opportunities of listening to the political orators of Harvard College. It would be interesting to compare the result of the canvass just completed, with a vote in the Harvard Union after an exhaustive discussion of the relative merits of the two candidates for the Presidency...
...dispatch from New Haven says: At length the new optional system is in running order, and proves to be very attractive. There are open to the seniors 32 elective courses. including nine in the classics, eight in modern languages and five in natural science, besides those in political economy under Professor Summer which prove much the most popular. Every one has had ample opportunity to satisfy his personal desires in regard to study. The juniors have the choice of seven courses each in the classics and modern languages, two in mathematics, one in zollogy and one in Roman history, besides...
...later dispatch from Dartmouth says that the men are not suspended, the trustees as yet having taken no action. This later communication says that instead of expulsion the with-holding of degrees was recommended. As the matter now stands, there is some uncertainty, and we shall have to wait for further confirmation before finally believing either report...