Word: washington
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Washington's birthday is observed at Dartmouth...
...proposition to increase the coinage facilities is now pending in Washington. Efforts will be made to establish a mint in New York, and do away with the one in Philadelphia...
...resolution has been made by the legislative assembly of Utah, and sent to Washington, praying Congress to send a commission to Utah to investigate affairs before taking any action in regard to the anti-polygamy bill...
...account of which Harvard College is compelled to stop for a moment her daily routine of recitations. The annual day of prayer for colleges, a day in which nearly all other colleges suspend recitations, is totally disregarded at Harvard. In fact, it is hardly ever heard of here. Washington's Birthday and other legal holidays are disregarded in the same manner. But yesterday an event occurred that demanded at least some little respect from the faculty. The funeral services over one of our instructors were held in the chapel yesterday noon. During the hours that these last rites were being...
...important conference of government officials, naval officers and congressmen was held yesterday, in Washington, to consider our naval needs and plans to supply them. A fleet of steel cruisers was deemed necessary...