Word: georgias
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...tendency of a fixed constitution, on revision, to an extension of legislative powers? No. The constitution of the Union has only been altered once or twice, at any rate before 1865, but the particular states afforded many instances of narrowed legislative competency. Some states, e. g. Lomsiana, South Carolina, Georgia, have had as many as five constitutions. Contrary to our experience of corporate bodies, in whose charters general wording leaves room for the framing of byelaws, the newer American constitutions embody much criminal, family and police law. Such constitutions frequently need amending...
...Harvard University; 1760, Yale College; 1746, Princeton College; 1749, University of Pennsylvania; 1757, Columbia College; 1768, Brown University; 1769, Dartmouth College; 1770, Rutgers College; 1775, Hampden Sydney College; 1781, Washington and Lee University; 1783, Dickinson College; 1784, St. Johns College; 1785, University of Georgia; 1789, University of North Carolina; 1789. Georgetown College; 1791, University of Vermont; 1793, Williams College; 1794, Bowdoin College; 1795, Union College: 1798, Kentucky University...
...Underwood, Sherman's March Through Georgia...
Under the provision of the Blair educational bill, Georgia takes the lead with $6,200,000. New Hampshire comes last with $165,000. New England altogether will receive...
When the spring of 1864 opened Gen. Sherman was in command of the western forces, which lay encamped several miles in front of Chattanooga. The Confederates, with a somewhat smaller force, had prepared to block any forward move and lay at Dalton, in northern Georgia. Gen. Joe Johnston was their leader. Sherman's aim was to capture Atlanta in Johnston's rear. With this aim in view he approached the enemy. All the resources of art and nature had combined to aid the latter. Mountains and entrenchment's strengthened his position. Sherman threatened the Confederate rear and Johnston retreated...