Word: washington
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Hall, at the Kimball House. Thursday afternoon a reception was given by Mr. Grant, at which the clubs gave a short concert, and in the evening another reception at the Capitol City Club was attended. Leaving at 2. a. m. Friday, a stop of six hours was made in Washington, and New Haven was reached at five Sunday afternoon...
This little book appears very appropriately near the centenial anniversary of Washington's inauguration. Its contents are already familiar, for it is merely a compilation of some of the greatest documents of American history. The book contains the Declaration of Independence, The Constitution of the United States, Washington's two inaugurals and farewell address, Lincoln's two inaugurals and speech at Gettysburg. The farewell address of Washington is carefully edited with marginal notes. Like all the rest of the series this book is well printed and neatly bound. It contains two fairly good portrait plates-Washington and Lincoln...
...banquet in New York, Tuesday, in celebration of Washington's inauguration, President Eliot answered to "Our schools and colleges" as follows...
...elementary schools of the country brought before your view. Each unit of that mass speaks of a glad birth, a brightened home, a mother's pondering heart, a father's careful joy. In all that multitude every little heart bounds and every eye shines at the name of Washington...
...address heard in which the thought is so compact, and so clearly and forcibly expressed. In fifteen minutes Mr. Winsor covered the ground which a great many orators would have spent two hours in travering, and he left a clearly defined impression of what the character of Washington has meant to him upon the minds...