Word: gen
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...might be present upon the occasion of the conferring of the degree, as he thought it likely to be a very festive one. General Butler looked up smilingly and said, "I will be glad to see you there." "Very well," responded the judge, "I will accept your invitation." Gen. Butler in his speech declared that he agreed with Judge Matthews regarding the Harvard College degree. If he was to be honored by that celebrated college, he preferred that the title of D. D. should be conferred upon him instead of LL. D. He thought he could fill the bill whatever...
...college, at a recent meeting at Cleveland, improved the occasion to attack his doctrines. Those who were guilty of this exhibition of disloyalty and bad taste smply showed that they had lost their heads. But perhaps when they made their ill-timed comments they were not aware that Gen. Garfield once said that Prof. Perry had done more than any other man in America to bring out the truth in political economy, or that he expressed marked gratification that there had been such a demand for Prof. Perry's books at the Congressional Library...
...world-renowned Daniel Pratt, the Great American Traveller, S. T. 1860 X. all visited the college within a month of one another. It seems that the invincible Daniel has been a great traveller since 1864, without having succeeded in getting beyond Cambridge. Succeeding Daniel comes W. T. Sherman, Maj. Gen. U. S. Army, 1866. Wendell Phillips, fresh from his anti-slavery work, writes his name with the same boldness as he was wont to speak...
...banquet was given in Washington last night in honor of Gen. W. T. Sherman's sixty-third birthday and approaching retirement from the army, at which speeches were made by Chief-Justice Waite, Justice Miller, Gen. Sheridan, Senator Hawley, Senator Logan, Mr. Henry Watterson and Gen. Sherman...
...rumored that Dr. McCosh is to retire from the presidency of Princeton College and is to be succeeded by Gen. McClellan...