Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...songs of Harvard is the same as the first, with the exception of the omission of the song "Every Day '11 be Sunday." The printing of the song was under a misapprehension as to its ownership. Although an attempt was made to retain the song by a settlement, the attempt failed through the cupidity of the owners. The action of the firm concerned is certainly questionable, and has been widely censured...
...that come from all parts of the civilized world so abundantly, unite in joyful salutations to all the institutions of learning everywhere; to the common schools, that stand in our land as the sure defence against ignorance and oppression; to the sister states, those contemporaneous in foundation and in settlement, and those too, reared in later time, and established in peace and prosperity upon the virgin soil of our country. And more especially do we regard with tender but exalted veneration the union of the states of the mighty republic of America. [Applause...
...striking fact that during the ten years or so following the coming of Winthrop, the two great English Universities sent into this wilderness fully a hundred of their best men, to strengthen the purpose and tone the spirit of the new settlement. It is not too much to say that in the history of colonization, ancient or modern, never before and never again has learning ever entered so deeply into the foundations of a people; nor is it too much to say that never in New England have learned men been so large a proportion of her population...
...people twice within the last five years. Mr. Hoar's bill provides for certain exigencies in a way which his opponents declare to be opposed to the constitution. The bill is now a law and as such will be discussed. The great relief which the country experienced upon the settlement of so disputed a question is said by some to be a false security. The debate, while being upon one of the most interesting topics yet discussed in the Union, promises to be one of the most closely contested of the year. We have received recently several communications criticizing...
...Davis threatens to sue all crews and boating organizations which have used oarlocks and oars conflicting, as he claims, with his patents. There is no longer any possibility of peaceable settlement. His claims are $10 to $600 on nearly every rowing organization in New England...