Word: doctors
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Student : "How is it, doctor, that I always take cold in my head?" Doctor : "It is a well known principle, sir, that a cold is likely to settle in the weakest part...
...election of Gen. Butler to the governorship has a peculiar interest to all connected with Harvard University. It has always been customary for the corporation to confer upon the governor of Massachusetts an honorary degree of doctor of laws, and if the custom is to be continued, and Gen. Butler lives until next commencement, he will receive this honor at the hands of those whom he has always professed to despise, and who certainly have despised, if not him, at least his political career and his peculiar doctrines. It is reported that one gentleman of standing connected with the management...
...indulges in the following editorial: "It is the usage of the Harvard Club of New York city to invite the governor of Massachusetts to their annual dinner on the eve of Washington's Birthday, and for the corporation of Harvard College to decorate him with the honorary degree of doctor of laws at the annual commencement in July. All this will come hard, we know, in His Excellency Governor Butler's case, not only on general considerations, but also in remembrance of a remark he once made about hanging Harvard professors; but we trust that the Harvard men will brace...
...Benjamin F. Butler, governor of Massachusetts, is to become a Doctor of Laws of Harvard University. Harvard winces...
...Yale College the other morning, while Professor Barbour was writing in his room in North College, a pistol ball entered the window, whizzed by the doctor's head, and struck a Hebrew Bible on the shelves opposite him. The ball was carelessly fired by some students who were pursuing an escaped squirrel across the college campus...