Word: governors
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...choir sang the following anthems: "Fight the Good Fight" by Parker; "O Lord our Governor" by Marcello; and "Peace and Light" by Chadwick...
...annual alumnin dinner was held at 2 o'clock of Commencement Day. The Rev. S. F. Smith was the oldest graduate in line. Professor Norton presided and opened the after-dinner speaking. The otehr speakers were President Eliot, Governor Greenhalge, Captain A. T. Mahan, Sir Frederick Pollock, Justice Horace Gray '45, Charles Francis Adams '56, Joseph Jefferson, J. H. Choate '52, J. C. Carter '50, and the Rev. Dr. George A. Gordon...
Lieutenant Governor Roger Walcott '70 will be Chief Marshal...
...John Forrester Andrew was the son of the war governor John A. Andrew, and was born in Hingham on the 16th of November, 1850. After his preliminary training in the public schools of Boston he went to Harvard, where he graduated in the class of '72. Three years later he graduated from the Harvard Law School, and immediately after his graduation he was admitted to practice at the Suffolk bar. In 1880 he was sent to the House of Representatives from Ward 9 and was twice re-elected to that body. Then he was sent to the Senate...
...offered the Democratic nomination for Congress in his district in 1884, but he declined it; but at the close of his term in the Senate in '86 he was the Democratic candidate for governor, and he came nearer an election than any other Democratic candidate for years. He declined a renomination for governor in '87, but the next year he became a candidate for Congress from the third district and was elected. He was reelected...