Word: landed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Clayton-Bulwer treaty is not voidable, but is binding on the United States, and is part of "the supreme law of the land."- Hall's Int. Law, 281-283, 293, 300; Constitution...
...Glee Club followed next with a group of two glees-"Courtship," by A. W. Thayer, and "The Happier Land," by Hatton. "Courtship" was sung with exquisite taste, and showed the long and patient work which doubtless had been given to it. The audience, however, did not seem to appreciate it as fully as they might have done...
...Happiest Land. Hatton...
...Isaiah V. Williamson, is 86 years of age, and is of an old Pennsylvania family, one of his ancestors having arrived in this country and taken out a patent for 100 acres of land near what is now Philadelphia, five years before William Penn came over to settle on his grant. He is a bacnelor, and has been engaged most of his life in the wholesale dry goods business...
...Francis G. Peabody assisted by Rev. William Lawrence of Cambridge. The choir was strengthened by the university glee club, giving in all a chorus of over fifty voices. They sang "Domine Salvam Fac," by Gounod, "Ave Verum," by Saint-Saens, and a Harvest Anthem "Ye Shall Dwell in the Land," by Stanier, the first two pieces for men's voices. Professor Peabody delivered an interesting address based on the figure of a shepherd leading his flocks so often used in the Bible. He applied the simile to our modern life showing the need of an inspiring leader and willing obedient...