Word: governors
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...Republican Club will hold a meeting and rally in Austin Hall tomorrow afternoon at 4.30 o'clock. Samuel W. McCall, the Republican candidate for Governor of Massachusetts, and Grafton D. Cushing '85, candidate for lieutenant-governor, will address the meeting. L. M. Friedman '93 will also speak. Mr. McCall has spent most of his political life in Washington serving on the Ways and Means Committee in the House of Representatives. Mr. Cushing has distinguished himself as Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. Both men have taken an especial interest in this meeting of the Republican Club tomorrow, because...
Edward Hopkins, born in 1600, was a successful London merchant who came to New England in 1637. He was several times Governor of Connecticut Colony; and on his return to England he was elected to Parliament and appointed Warden of the Fleet under Cromwell. His will expresses his desire "to give some encouragement in those foreign plantations, for the breeding up of hopeful youths, both at the grammar school and college, for the public service of the country in future times'; and his educational bequests to New England are of great importance. Part of the income of one of these...
...clock. The degrees for the year were awarded, and the winners of academic distinction for 1913-14 were announced. The Rev. James Hardy Ropes '89, D.D., of Cambridge opened the exercises with a prayer. The Commencement address was delivered by Augustus Everett Willson '69, of Louisville, Ky., ex-governor of Kentucky. Dean Briggs, President of Radcliffe College, presided...
...will be taken up by several talks beginning at 9.30 o'clock, and also given in Sanders Theatre. Notable among these will be the one on "Shall Education Select by Elimination or by Training?" by C. A. Prossen, Instructor of Vocal Guidance in the Summer School. That same evening Governor Walsh will preside over the joint meeting of the American School Peace League and the A. I. I. Later Justice William Riddell of the Supreme Court of Ontario, and Hamilton Holt, editor of the Independent will speak...
...highway engineering has been established under one of the departments effected by the recent agreement between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard. Professor Hector J. Hughes '94, Director of the Engineering Camp, will conduct the course. This work will fall into those lines of working together to which Governor Walsh has recently called attention, whereby the special work or experience of Technology and Harvard is to be put where it will substantially benefit the city and Commonwealth...