Word: washington
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Forum for February has an article by Andrew D. White, on the expediency of founding a university at Washington...
...Washington is a centre in which great educational resources are brought together, and from which are radiated vast influences upon American life; and the fact that it is our capital has made it the permanent or temporary residence of very many leading men, upon whom a university might draw for its lecture rooms and council chambers. Moreover, Washington offers advantages for scientific research, which can be obtained in no other city in this country. The Smithsonian Institute, the National Museum, the great government Surveys, sundry Government commissions and bureaus, whose work is largely scientific, and many retired officers...
...Washington's birthday was a holiday at the Mass. Institute of Technology...
...Wesleyan faculty have discovered nine members of the freshman class who took part in the bomb-throwing celebration of Washington's birthday...
Wesleyan students while celebrating Washington's birthday destroyed a part of two dormitories and severely injured a freshman by exploding dynamite cartridges...