Word: washington
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...House yesterday, a resolution was passed appropriating $10,000 to erect a memorial column at Washington's headquarters at Newburg...
There is talk of buying the Craigie house, Washington's headquarters and Longfellow's home, as a president's residence for Harvard College...
...schools and colleges. The organization is imperfect. They are controlled too often by private animosities, family interests and compacts, and every form of nepotism, or may become subject to this power of a boss, so that they are not better nor worse than the powers of administration at Washington. Take the organization of the school at Andover, where an old and learned faculty and a large and respectable body of trustees are subject, on the most critical questions, to a board of three men, and this board having the power of perpetuating itself! Such an organization illustrates what has been...
...Randolph heirs of Virginia oppose the proposed removal of Jefferson's remains to Washington...
William Brockway, the notorious counterfeiter, was arrested in New York Saturday and taken to Washington...