Word: governors
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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President Eliot, though avoiding the matter directly, spoke of the predicament in which the university was placed by being compelled to give to Governor Butler the honorary title of LL. D. "We are always prosperous at Cambridge," said President Eliot. "Years differ a little in regard to numbers and in regard to pecuniary gains, but we are always growing, and always gaining; and if we did not we should still be prosperous and happy. For, after all, it is with institutions very much as it is with individual men; happiness comes from the free, natural, useful play of noble faculties...
...will of the late Governor Jewell of Connecticut, admitted to probate yesterday, contains bequests amounting to about $500,000, none of which are of a public character...
President Arthur and General Grant are to act as pall-bearers at the funeral of Ex-Governor Morgan in New York today...
...Governor Morgan was very low last night, and the indications are that he cannot long survive...
...Dominion Parliament was formally opened at Ottawa yesterday by the governor-general...