Word: great
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Washington Harvard Club held its annual dinner at Wormley's last Tuesday evening. Dr. George B. Loring presided and delivered a speech on "Harvard College equal to all great occasions." There were thirty-six members present...
...debate was opened for the affirmative by J. J. Higgins, L. S. He assumed that Canada desires annexation and that Great Britain is willing, and considered the advantages of union from that standpoint. He described the wealth and resources of the country, at the same time showing that we are rapidly exhausting our own country in the resources in which Canada is rich; so that it will soon be a question of owning Canada or pouring our money into her treasury...
...Gentlemen of Ireland. Unfortunately, though, owing to the fact that they had to sail from New York on the following Wednesday, the Irishmen were unable to play, a matter of regret to the cricket authorities at Harvard, not only because such a fixture would have helped the game a great deal in the University, but because it would have considerably improved Harvard's chances of meeting Yale, its great rival, in an annual match...
...sure that the students feel grateful to the college government for the opportunity given them, and we ask that this policy of Conference Meetings be continued, feeling positive that it can only be productive of great good...
...centre but the brains of the whole country. Here resides the emperor. His power is much more restricted than that of the President of the United States. Corresponding to our two houses are the Bundesrath and the Reichstag, established in 1871. In their short life they have accomplished a great deal, viz.: they established a uniform duty so that all the states can enjoy equal privileges; they introduced a uniform monetary system, and reformed the department of justice. The army had a great deal to do with the rise of nationality. All are compelled to serve their term, so that...