Word: politician
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Last evening, Mr. J. H. Ropes discussed the political and legal career of Sir Francis Bacon, with special reference to his relations with Queen Elizabeth, Essex, Buckingham and Burleigh. In the course of his remarks he read largely from Spedding; the different biographies of Bacon as a politician and judicial official were also carefully compared. The subject proved a fruitful one for investigation, and the club did not adjourn until a late hour...
...challenged at the polls, and when he deposited his ballot was arrested and brought before the United States commissioner. The student claimed that he was of age and entitled to vote, and was discharged, pending an investigation. It is said that several others had been informed by a politician that they had a right to vote, and were intending to cast their ballots also, but were deterred by the arrest of their companion...
...last article "(Re) publicans and (Fair) Sinners" is a story in a much lighter vein than the others. The hero, a scheming politician, goes to the convention at Saratoga, and, at the time when his presence is most needed to strengthen his chance for nomination, yields to the fascinations of a fair conspirator and goes off on an excursion, only to came back too late and find that his rival has secured the coveted prize. The story is fairly well written, but the plot is by no means...
...strong support which Harvard and Harvard men have given to this paper, renders an apology unnecessary for reference on our part to the present change in management and ownership. Henry Cabot Lodge, well known to us as a Harvard graduate and former instructor, as well as a politician and writer, has purchased a large interest in the Advertiser, and will hence-forth, presumedly, have much to do in shaping its policy. We can but congratulate Professor Dunbar as he retires, and the college at large, for the credit reflected directly and indirectly by the high journalistic stand to which this...
...book counter: Bayard Taylor's Views Afoot; Choate's Elements of English Speech; Crawford's American Politician; Reid's Life and Times of Sydney Smith; Max Muller's Biographical Essays; Edmund Yates' Fifty Years of London Life; Julian Hawthorne's Hawthorne and his Wife; Cable's Creole of Louisiana, Hedge on Atheism in Philosophy, Botta's Handbook of Universal Literature; Ainger's Charles Lamb...