Word: governors
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last commencement it was announced that Governor H. W. Ladd was to give an astronomical observatory to Brown university. Many sites were considered, but it was finally decided to erect the building on the grounds given to the university by Mrs. Metcalf for a botanic garden and for such other uses as the university should deem best. The site selected is an excellent one for astronomical observations as the view is unobstructed, except toward the west, where it is cut off close to the horizon, but at no point higher than from...
...CRIMSON has received from the secretary's office the following letter which will be of interest to every citizen of the United States. Accompanying the communication is a catalogue of about four hundred relics of President Jackson now in the option of the Hermitage Association, and a letter from Governor Taylor of Tennessee commending the work of the society. Nashville. Tenn...
...appreciate a contribution. Even your recognition would be of incalculable value in adding us to raise the fund necessary to perpetuate the memory of the patriot whose thrilling utterance "The union must and shall be preserved," is now the watchword of this grand republic. I hand you bye laws, Governor Taylor's endorsement. etc., Awaiting your early and we sincerely trust, favorable reply, I am, dear sirs...
...fate of the Parthenon no longer rested on the result of the campaign in Egypt. At this time, De Hunt, chaplain of the British embassy to Constantinople, conceived the idea of moving the marbles themselves to London and finally in 1801, after some reluctance, gained permission from the governor...
Pillsbury Hall the gift of ex-Governor Pillsbury to the University of Minnesota is completed at a cost...