Word: washington
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...devices resorted to are worthy of admiration. At one time an extra dollar is needed to pay the month's rent; again, a pitiful story of a dying child is used to work upon our sympathies. Furthermore, he can suit his conversation to the tastes of his auditors. On Washington's Birthday and Decoration Day he sympathizes with us and bewails the cruelty of the faculty in not giving us a holiday, at the same time hinting that he expects to take a little vacation himself, and that a slight donation will not be amiss. Once in a while...
...occurred at 181 and 183 Washington street, Boston, at half-past 6 last evening...
...became sole editor and part owner. In 1868, on account of impaired health, he withdrew from active service as editor, and in the following year permanently severed his editorial and business connections with the paper, when he accepted the Chair of Political Economy in the college. The first Washington correspondent of the Advertiser was Mr. Adams S. Hill, now Professor of Rhetoric. Mr. Howard M. Ticknor, late instructor in Elocution, was musical critic under Professor Dunbar's management. Harvard graduates have always been leading members of the editorial staff of the paper...
Senator Ferry is critically ill in Washington...
...American colleges, were things of the past. Recent events, however, have proved that these outbreaks still remain as institutions of some of our leading colleges. At Yale, in spite of the strong attitude of the college papers in favor of allowing the annual "banger" rush, which takes place on Washington's birthday, to die out, as did the freshman theatre parties, in vogue up to last year at Harvard, the class of '86 gave their voice in favor of perpetuating the silly custom by appearing with huge canes Thursday morning. This was taken as a challenge by the sophomores...