Word: washington
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...said that Mr. T. J. Coolidge, '84, will be one of those selected to accompany Dr. Hart to the historical convention to be held in Washington this spring...
...founded. It had at first 4 engines. They ran from Boston to Plymouth. From $1500 to $2000 was earned in a week. Now in every great railroad, there are five departments, - the financial, the construction, the operating, the commercial, and the legal. As in the national government at Washington, there is the president. His cabinet is composed of a treasurer, an engineer, a superintendent, a general traffic manager, and a lawyer, all of whom are heads of departments...
...Brown nine opens the season with the Nationals of Washington, on the 30th and 31st of March...
...rumored that on the morning of Washington's Birthday two Farmington girls walked through the crowd of students gathered about the fence on a wager. - Yale News. We never saw any students gathered about a fence on a wager. From the text we are unable to judge whether the girls, or the students, or the fence were "on a wager." - Exonian...
There is, moreover, one great advantage to be gained by the establishment of a good school of political science at Washington, which Mr. Carpenter has not mentioned, that is the better training of our very highest officials. For from the time that Jackson laid down the principles of international law during the Seminole War, until the time that Blaine in his South American policy developed a new and startling theory of diplomacy, our Presidents and Secretaries of State have been guilty of the most egregious blunders in their dealings with other countries...