Word: governors
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...Amherst College class of 1836 commemorates this year the fiftieth anniversary of its graduation. Some of the names on its list are noteworthy. Its salutatorian was the late Governor Alexander H. Bullock. The Rev. Dr. Hitchcock, president of the Union Seminary, New York city, Justices Kellogg and Doolittle, respectively of the supreme courts of Vermont and New York, Dr. Nathan Allen of Lowell, and other men who have made their mark, are numbered among "the boys...
...certain enterprising member of the sophomore class called upon the Governor last week and found that Fast Day is appointed for the eighth of April. The spring recess will then begin on Tuesday, April sixth...
...good time rather than as a serious and important duty, when their further services were declared to be unnecessary. Later on many regular troops were equipped here with arms and ammunition, and in 1864, at the time when the "Merrimac" was creating such havoc in the neighborhood of Norfolk, Governor Andrew had an addition put on the northern side, and also erected the little building which stood just to the east of the addition. This he had fitted up as a workshop for the manufacture of muskets. As a state enterprise, however, this was not a success, and work...
...Governor Henry M. Hoyt of Pennsylvania is to lecture on "Protection," at Williams College, on February 3, and again on February...
...first harvests in Plymouth, Gov. Bradford sent out four men fowling, with the now chestnutty exhortation, that they "might after a more special manner rejoice together." Henceforth upon any special good fortune befalling them, such as rain in drouth, arrival of stores from England, or favorable colonial legislation, the Governor would proclaim a day of thanksgiving and prayer. Eight days were set apart in this manner in Massachusetts up to 1639. In Plymouth Colony the day was celebrated three different years up to 1680, when, from the reading of the records, it evidently became an annual custom...