Word: governors
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Then a few years ago the governor of New York appointed a committee for prison reform, of which I was made chairman. We began to study the situation by getting the criminal's point of view, and for this purpose I went to prison for a week...
...first charter was granted to Princeton College on October 22, 1746, by Governor John Hamilton. This was the first college charter conferred in America by the independent action of a provincial governor. The charter of Harvard was granted by an act of the legislature of Massachusetts; the charter of Yale was an act of the legislature of Connecticut; and that of William and Mary was granted directly by those sovereigns...
...name of John Hamilton, therefore, is given a conspicuous place in every list of founders of Princeton University. He granted the first charter against the precedent made by the governor whom he succeeded in the executive chair; and he granted it with alacrity, certainly without vexatious delay...
...years later, on September 14, 1748, a second charter was granted by Governor Jonathan Belcher, Harvard 1699 and this is the charter of Princeton today...
...Europe and as a city on the mouth of a river in India; Mr. Marshall was named as a United States senator and the greatest justice of the Supreme Court; Mr. Lansing was an ambassador variously to England, France and Mexico; Ty Cobb, a freshman said, was an ex-governor of Maine; another called him "greatest baseball twirler living," also "stellar performer on Jack Combe's team"; Fernald was named governor of this state, and the chief executive of Massachusetts was stated as Call. Several said that Grey was premier of England and that Asquith was prime minister, rather overcrowding...