Word: states
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Wednesday.Board of Overseers. Meeting at No. 50 State St., Boston...
Such a lack of class spirit as is suggested by this state of things is lamentable, no doubt. But there is a great danger of talking about indifference and lack of class spirit in a forlorn, can't-be-helped tone that does more than anything else to increase the evil, and which is in nine cases out of ten a mere pretext to cover individual laziness...
...Haven, his father being the well known inventor of the same name, was graduated at Yale in 1857, studied chemistry and physics in the universities of Heidelberg, Marburg and Berlin, and returning to this country was named professor of chemistry and physics in the University of Vermont and State Agricultural College. He was afterwards professor of physics and mechanic arts at Cornell University; acting professor of physics at Columbia College, and from 1870 until last June filled the chair of physics of Brown. He was a member of many scientific bodies...
...Dallinger 2 L. S., was yesterday unanimously nominated for state senator by the Republican Convention. Dallinger graduated from Harvard in '93, and the next year received the additional degree...
...present law is preferable to local option.- (a) Judgment of New York City is not so safe as that of the State.- (1) The population of N. Y. City being 80 per cent. foreign-born or children of foreign-born, is unfit to decide American excise questions: N. Y. Post, 9 Aug., '95.- (2) Saloons control the primaries, and local option would put the city government in the hands of saloon keepers entirely: Independent, 29 Aug., '95.- (b) Local Option is liable to grave abuse.- (1) In Wisconsin the town goes so far as to determine the rate of licenses...