Word: governors
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There will be more than one will changed when Harvard College confers a degree upon Governor Butler. - [Journal.] If Harvard College is particularly desirous of making votes and political capital for Governor Butler, it will take the advice of the Journal in the matter of conferring the degre of LL. D. upon the governor. He is Dr. Butler already, another college having conferred the degree of LL. D. upon him. But the proper thing for Harvard to do is to follow the 27 precedents it has made in this century, by conferring the customary honor upon the present chief magistrate...
...hope this will not prove true. The "Society of Christian Brethren," founded in 1802, meets weekly. The Harvard Total Abstinence Society has what ought to be considered a very small membership, but it is worth nothing that it exists, and recently had a public meeting at which ex-Governor Long and Rev. E. E. Hale, both alumni of Harvard, made rousing addresses. The use of wine at their tables by influential person in the University does not however help matters much. But one is glad to recognize some earnest advocates of total abstinence in the faculty...
...deadlock in the Georgia Legislature has at last been broken, and the Democrats have nominated Henry D. McDaniel for governor...
...independent convention in Rhode Island yesterday Hon. William Sprague was nominated for governor...
...will of the late Ex-Governor Morgan benefits a number of public institutions...