Word: state
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Heywood and his ancestors had held the town clerk's office for 107 year. He was a member of the state legislature during most of the years between 1862 and 1875 and was on Governor Long's and Governor Butler's Executive Councils. He had also been president of the Middlesex Mutual Fire Insurance Co., and of the Concord National Bank...
...Dean, considerable attention is given to the discussion of the struggle which has been made to suppress dishonesty in written work. He recites the attempt made to stop such dishonesty two years ago and the failure of that attempt. Dean Briggs thinks that the reason for this state of College morals is found in the double standard,-a shifting for the convenience of the moment, from the character of a responsible man to the character of an irresponsible boy. "The administrative officers," says he, "accept without question a student's word: they assume that he is a gentleman and that...
...would be that they would cease to entertain at all. Class Day would thus become a mere fashionable show, full of extravagance; a festival which the rich man would naturally enjoy, but which the poor man would have no share in. Any change which could lead to such a state of affairs can be regarded only as the worst evil which could possibly befall...
From a total of 1811 students at the University of Pennsylvania 2,022 come from the State of Pennsylvania...
...regular debate of the Harvard Forum was held last evening in Harvard 1 on the question, "Resolved, That it would be for the benefit of the state if our legislative bodies passed fewer laws." S. T. Sears L. S. spoke on the affirmative and K. Stone L. S. on the negative. The debate was then thrown open to the house and a number of men spoke...