Word: governors
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...unconscious satire on Gen. Butler from the London Saturday review, in an article on American politics: "He is a candidate for the office of governor of Massachusetts, though it has not been ascertained whether he professes to be a Republican or a Democrat...
...still in force, the president and fellows of Harvard College became a body corporate, enjoying the right of administering the funds and making all rules for the government of the college, as well as of electing their successors in office. The former board of overseers was retained, embracing the governor, the deputy governor, and the leading clergymen and magistrates of the adjoining towns. This double organization was designed to perpetuate in the government of the college the close relation of church and State to all educational institutions. The overseers had been the sole governing board, but, as constituted...
...steamer City of Worcester of the Norwich line, bound for New London, Conn., ran on the rocks known as the Governor's Table in East river last night. The passengers were safely transferred to New York...
...Governor Hoyt of Pennsylvania has fixed Tuesday, Oct. 24, as a legal holiday for the observance of the bi-centennial throughout the State...
...Webster celebration at Marshfield yesterday an eloquent address was delivered by Hon. Stephen M. Allen, president of the Webster Historical Society, and a poem was read by Prof. W. C. Wilkinson of Tarrytown. At the dinner speeches were made by Governor Long, President Arthur, Senator Dawes, Governor Bell, Judge Russell, President Bartlett of Dartmouth College, and Hon. Geo. B. Loring...