Word: washington
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...College Glee Club will make their annual tour, the trip this year being largely through the Southern States. Beginning at Philadelphia, the club will visit in succession the cities of Pittsburgh, Columbus, O., Lexington, Ky., Atlanta and Augusta, Ga., Charleston, S. C., Wilmington, N. C., Richmond and Fredricksburg, Va., Washington and Baltimore. The alumni have manifested much interest in this the first visit of any Princeton Glee Club to the South. At Lexington the club will be entertained at the eleventh annual meeting of the Alumni Association of Cincinnati and vicinity...
...becoming so popular that only a small number of those in attendance are able to meet and converse with the ever cordial host. Here certainly is need for reform. The lists at the office must be getting as long as the docket of the U. S. Supreme Court at Washington, and it is probable that soon the man with an invitation to U. 5 will have as much difficulty in getting advantage from it, as the poor plaintiff has in bringing his case to trial. Aside from the evils of postponement, another evil arises from the condition of affairs...
...heart of Jumbo, Barnum's elephant, weighing 47 pounds, has been presented to the Cornell Museum; the skeleton will eventually be given to the Smithsonian Institute at Washington...
Students who intend to go home for the April recess may get reduced railroad fares by communicating with A. V. Fisher, 250 Washington St., Boston...
...Harvard Crimson in a recent article refers to the proposition to establish a school of Political Science at Washington for the training of candidates for our civil service and diplomatic corps; but, despairing of seeing such an institution in that city, it advocates the addition of such a department to Harvard. The idea is an excellent one, and should receive more attention from our educators and legislators. If such a department were added to our universities, it would not only insure a better civil service, but it would make the "scholar in politics" a reality instead of a reformer...