Word: dominions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Frost, L. S, took the Tappan prize of $150, for an essay on "The Foundation and Prospects of the Dominion of Canada...
...game is played there. Inter-collegiate foot ball has been forbidden us for the future, but nothing has been said by the faculty against our playing international matches with the gentlemen's teams of Canada. Nothing objectionable has ever been found about the games played with clubs from the Dominion, and there is no reason to suppose there will be. This suggestion is offered as a reason why foot ball should not be allowed to languish while the present interdict of the faculty remains in force...
...party of 200 students in Toronto, Canada, returning home late one evening last week singing songs, and raising a racket generally, was broken up by the police. One student, the son of a prominent member of the Dominion government, was given his choice by the court next day of paying a fine, together with costs, or of making a 30 days' sojourn in jail...
Miss Augusta Stowe, of Toronto, received the degree of M. D. from the Victoria University of Coburg, Canada, on the 16th ult. In presenting her, Dr. Ogden said she was the first lady who had ever taken a medical degree in the Dominion of Canada. Although she had received her instruction in a mixed class of both sexes, there had never existed the slightest difficulty in the class owing to her presence there. Indeed she had endeared herself to the students to such an extent that on one occasion, when an attempt had been made to create some disturbance...
...Canadian Universities are seeking to obtain representation in the Dominion parliament...