Word: governors
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...which have hitherto marked the observance of commencement day at the university were no longer to be tolerated within the college precincts, has made a commotion among the alumni scarcely less profound than that occasioned by the action of the overseers in refusing to confer an honorary degree on Governor Butler. The exact meaning of this semi-official utterance was not fully understood at first, but the plain English of it was taken to be that the flowing bowls of punch and other mellowing refreshments which the various classes have been accustomed, more majorum, to provide for their entertainment...
Judge Foraker, the Republican candidate for governor of Ohio, is a graduate of Cornell, class...
...Governor Butler and stad will attend the commencement exercises at Williams College, Williamstown, on July 4. The college in 1864 conferred the honorary degree of LL. D. upon General Butler. The Governor will also be present on June 20 at the centennial celebration of Phillips Academy, Exeter, of which he is a graduate...
...University of the City of New York is struggling to obtain $250,000 as a fund to mark the celebration of its semi-centennial, and who knows but that Governor Butler, who years ago erected one of the finest monuments in Greenwood Cemetery, might reward the courtesy of an LL. D. from the New York University with a handsome gift to the institution so near which he is to sleep the last long sleep? It would not be creditable to bestow the honor from a mercenary motive, but then Governor Butler is a scholarly man, and he himself has recently...
According to the New York Mail, there is a possibility that the University of the City of New York will, at commencement, two weeks hence, bestow upon Governor Butler the degree of LL. D., which Harvard denied him. "The university," says the Mail, "is struggling to obtain $250,000 as a fund to mark the celebration of its semi-centennial, and who knows but that Governor Butler, who years ago erected one of the finest monuments in Greenwood Cemetery, might reward the courtesy of a LL. D. from the New York university with a handsome gift to the institution...