Word: governors
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Boston Post is authority for the statement that Governor Butler will not attend the commencement exercises this year...
...Iowa Democrats have nominated L. G. Kinne for governor, and Justin C. Clark for lieutenant-governor...
...Ohio Republicans yesterday nominated Judge J. B. Foraker of Cincinnati for governor, and William G. Rose of Cleveland for lieutenant-governor...
...Governor Butler's explanation the Advertiser says: He knows, and every intelligent person in the United States knows, that the college has departed from its usual custom not on account of his political creed, not on account of the condition or the principles of his supporters, not on account of his qualifications or want of qualifications in the item of learning, but because he is himself a person whose public character and example are inimical to the standards a university is under the highest obligation to approve and inculcate...
...Post remarks with considerable heat: A majority of the overseers of Harvard University, having done just what they should not have done with respect to the question of conferring a degree upon the governor, and having thus committed the great institution to a policy of narrow-minded exclusiveness utterly unworthy of it, and, so far as we have been able to judge, condemned by the sons of the college generally, perhaps it is unprofitable to further discuss the matter. As Dundreary used to say to his valet, "You go to the devil and there you are." Harvard has simply made...