Word: session
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last session of both houses of the Forty-Seventh Congress expired by limitation at noon yesterday. David Davis resigned the presidency of the Senate, and Senator Edmunds was chosen as his successor. The tariff and appropriation bills were passed. The last session in the House was very animated...
...large number of the officials at the head of the present administration are college men. Arthur is a graduate of Union, David Davis of Kenyon, Frelinghuysen of Rutgers, Lincoln of Harvard, Folger of Hobart and Brewster of Princeton. Besides these, in the Forty-seventh Congress now holding its last session, 39 of the 76 senators have received a collegiate education, and in the House of Representatives, 152 out of 299 have enjoyed similar advantages. - [University Quarterly...
...final session of the meeting of the American Institute of Mining Engineers was held in Boston yesterday, and Robert M. Hunt of Troy, N. Y., was elected president for the ensuing year...
...American Institute of Mining Engineers has been holding its annual session at the Institute of Technology in Boston. Yesterday a party of about 200 gentlemen and ladies visited the college, inspecting the library and gymnasium and lunching at 2 P. M. at Memorial Hall. At 3.30 the party adjourned to Boylston where they examined the mineralogical cabinet, and at 4 assembled in 9 Boylston, where a paper on the "Relative Strength of American Woods" was read by Prof. Sharples, and an experiment was performed by Prof. J. P. Cooke with the aid of magic lantern and electric light, showing...
...twelve students who died at Leipsic during the last session of the university, one was killed in a duel and six committed suicide...