Word: governors
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Exonian suggests that Harvard's next move towards economy and the reduction of expenses be made by cutting down the "banquet fund" - in other words to serve the governor-elect of Massachusetts a cold lunch only on the day when in triumph he shall ride to Cambridge to take his degree...
Last evening Lieut.-Governor-elect Oliver Ames gave a reception and collation at North Easton in view of the election of the candidates residing in the Second Congressional District. Among the speakers were Gov. Long, Gen. Butler, Hon. James N. Buffum and Ex-Collector Simmons...
...Dickinson College at Carlisle, Pa., are anxious to secure an endowment fund for the college of $100,000. They have recently received toward this $30,000 in seven per cent. bonds given them by Mr. Thomas Beaver of Danville, Pa., an uncle of General Beaver, the Republican candidate for governor...
...election of Gen. Butler to the governorship has a peculiar interest to all connected with Harvard University. It has always been customary for the corporation to confer upon the governor of Massachusetts an honorary degree of doctor of laws, and if the custom is to be continued, and Gen. Butler lives until next commencement, he will receive this honor at the hands of those whom he has always professed to despise, and who certainly have despised, if not him, at least his political career and his peculiar doctrines. It is reported that one gentleman of standing connected with the management...
...York Herald indulges in the following editorial: "It is the usage of the Harvard Club of New York city to invite the governor of Massachusetts to their annual dinner on the eve of Washington's Birthday, and for the corporation of Harvard College to decorate him with the honorary degree of doctor of laws at the annual commencement in July. All this will come hard, we know, in His Excellency Governor Butler's case, not only on general considerations, but also in remembrance of a remark he once made about hanging Harvard professors; but we trust that the Harvard...