Word: governors
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...report that Columbia was founded from the proceeds of a lottery, owes its origin to the following: In 1746, the governor of New York approved an act entitled "An act for raising the sum of Sigma250 by a public lottery for this colony, for the encouragement of learning and towards the founding of a college within the same...
...DINNER.The company gathered promptly at six o'clock in the parlors of the Brunswick, and fifteen minutes later filed into the elegant dining-hall. A full list of the guests (including M-ses K-ng, 1881) will be published in the next Resister. Governor Short, the eminent translator of TYBILS, the great Ponca epic, was invited to preside. On his right sat Miss Dark Eyes, on his left the editor of the Tramp; while Mr. Shirts (in effigy) held the position of honor opposite. After ample justice had been done to the excellent menu, the chairman called the company...
...Governor Short, and Senators Hawes and Door...
...extreme Liberal and he loved Americans. He was very curious about the United States, particularly Boston, Cambridgeport, - where Harvard College is situated, - and Bangor. He one day asked our heroine if the Boston Poncas had not yet been removed to any reservation, and if Carl Schurz were not the governor of Massachusetts. He wanted to know if Roscoe Conkling had not been elected President, and if the Concord poet were not to be Secretary of State. Tommie did not laugh at these questions: she saw too deeply into the spiritualities of things. She felt that he was intense...
...worth cultivating, - however, I have the pick of the class. Of course this sort of thing requires time and money, but I don't have to study any to speak of, and my allowance is generous, as the family are economizing in many ways. I wish the governor's business would brace up a little. I hate to have the girls give up the opera, when I make a practice of going in town in a cab; but then, "when you're in Rome," &c. And, after all, this is the sort of life which makes...