Word: unionism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...oldest bicycle club is the Pickwick of London; to this club belongs the credit of forming the Bicycle Union in England, now called the National 'Cyclists Union, since the tricycle has come into vogue...
Burnett, Liberty and Union; Daniel Webster. Hutchins, Donatello's Statue of St. George. Rogers. The Puritan Principle; Wendell Phillips. Santayana. The Prayer of Achilles to his Mother; Homer. Von Klenz, The Parting of Hector and Andromache; Homer. Webster, Daniel O'Connell; Wendell Phillips. Winter, The Prisoner of Chillon; Byron. Bowen, Cambyses and the Macrobion Bow; Paul H. Hayne. A. C. Coolidge, The Greek Revolution; Henry Clay. W. L. Currier. Abolition in 1830; W. L. Garrison, Hamilton, Home Rule; W. E. Gladstone. Stedman, Against Whipping in the Navy; Commodore Stockton. Sternbergh, A Defence of Massachusetts; Anson Burlingame. J. E. Walker...
...Harvard Union Debate. Sever 11, 7.30 p.m. Question: "Resolved: That a Responsible Government more truly represents the people than a Constitutional...
Sixth, the disputants have been appointed purely on their merits and for their interest in the Union. The names of the principal speakers will bear out this assertion. The Advocate says to get an appointment, it is only necessary "to be constant in attendance, in volubility and in activity." Now certainly this is not an argument against the committee. It would certainly be very bad policy for the management to appoint men who have been irregular in attendance, who have seldom spoken, and make a merit of inactivity...
...publish to-day a communication from the executive committee of the Harvard Union. The charges recently made by the Advocate that the Union was degenerating and that meaningless speeches met with applause, and that ranting was considered brilliant, are reviewed at length. We hope that all the friends of the Union will read all the articles upon the subject which have been published, and thoughtfully make an unbiased judgment, for if the charges made by the Advocate and our correspondent are true, the training which the speakers in the Union are getting must be very harmful to their powers...