Word: gov
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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President White of Cornell recently declined an appointment by Gov. Cleveland as civil service commissioner, on account of pressing studies...
Judge Hoar will sail for Europe in June, and thus deprive himself of the pleasure of Gov. Butler's companionship at the Harvard alumni dinner. - [Gazette...
Sever 11 was fairly well filled last evening on the occasion of the first public meeting of the Harvard Total Abstinence League to listen to addresses by Rev. E. E. Hale and Ex-Gov. Long. The speakers were introduced by President Cummings who gave a brief statement of the purpose and prospects of the society...
...Gov. Long stated that he also spoke as an atonement for the past. Nobody questions the extent of the evils of intemperance fostering nine-tenths of all crime, with its immense cost, equal to the amount of the manufacturing wages of the United States. Harvard men are always full of suggestions on the reform of the conduct of government, but on the question of temperance they are decidedly shrinking, and yet the question of temperance is by far the most important economical question of the day, throwing completely into the shade the reform of the tariff or of the civil...
...question of total abstinence, no one can doubt that the society has chosen the best and most persuasive way of spreading its principles. Few can afford to miss hearing the utterances of two such representative public men and sons of Harvard as Rev. E. E. Hale and Ex-Gov. Long on the important question of temperance. The meeting this evening will no doubt be one of exceptional interest...