Word: washington
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Yale was granted a half holiday on Washington's Birthday...
...Washington's Birthday was observed in an appropriate manner in several cities of the United States and in London and Berlin...
...Washington's one hundred and fiftieth birthday was appropriately observed at Harvard by singing "America" at morning chapel and by serving George Washington soup at lunch at Memorial. In addition to these recognitions of the day, the occasion was also celebrated in the afternoon by a largely attended exhibition of fire-escapes back of Thayer. The entertainment was carried out according to programme, beginning with the world-renowned loose rope performance on Rice's patent fire escape, and ending with a volunteer fire-ladder exhibition enlivened with numerous exciting divertissements du dog-fight. The raising of the ladder...
...further celebrated by the visit of the American Association of Mining Engineers to the college, so that altogether it may fairly be said that Washington's Birthday never in the memory of present under-graduates has met with such distinguished consideration at the hands of the college...
Prof. A. S. Hill was the first Washington correspondent of the Boston Advertiser. In association with two other gentlemen Prof. Hill at that time organized a bureau of information at Washington...