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Somebody has been looking over Princeton's list of graduates who have become prominent in public life, and finds that it includes two signers of the Declaration of Independence, twenty-seven delegates to the Continental Congress, one President (Madison), two Vice-Presidents and five nominated as candidates, seventeen Cabinet officers, one chief-justice, five associate justices, seventeen foreign ministers, fifty-one Senators and 115 Representatives. besides two speakers of the House...
...Seventeen seniors presented themselves last evening in Upper Massachusetts to make arrangements for the senior dinner. It was decided to hold the dinner about the 14th of December. The following officers for the dinner were elected: President P. D. Trafford, Toast-master B. Weaver, orator H. H. Darling, poet C. Huuneman, Choristor M. A. Taylor...
...Peck has been appointed to the Chair of Latin at Columbia out of seventeen applicants. The position has been vacant for a year and a half...
...Seventeen men entered this year from Andover. This is a larger number than Harvard has received from this school for several years...
...Seventeen men of other colleges have entered the upper classes at Amherst...